"Markus Robert Kessler"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 17:16:40 +0000 Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2020-10-22, Richard Falken
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>   Re: Re: SDCard -- install here and deploy there?
>>>   By: Markus Robert Kessler to All on Thu Oct 22 2020 05:35 pm
>>>
>>>> To be on the safe side I make / made a reboot every night. From this
>>>> the
>>>
>>> I know I am not helping, but rebooting "just because" is bad practice.
>>
>> Go easy on him, he probably started out as a Microsoft vict^H^H^H^Huser.
>
> Vict-what? -- Victim?
>
> At work I use to boot my machines only every few months and some even
> once per year. For headless servers this is sufficient. But these have
> typically 16 GB of RAM or even more.
>
> We are talking about a "Raspberry A" with 256 MB (MegaByte). Under load
> this amount will be eaten up soon. That was one of the reasons for
> inventing repeated reboots. On more sophisticated RPIs with 1 GB this is
> not necessary of course.

In the 1990s, one of our UNIX servers (hostname "ozz" - yes, someone
couldn't spell: I know the Wizard was from Oz) was a real pig to get all the
processes running after a reboot - it required a lot of black-art tinkering
by one of the UNIX gurus. Consequently it was never restarted Fortunately it
never need kernel rebuilds for incorporating new device drivers.
Surprisingly, in view of its kittle and vulnerable state, it wasn't
connected to a UPS. One day there was a fairly dramatic power cut, when a
JCB working nearby put its jib through a high-voltage cable (*). Whereas
everyone else went to investigate the loud explosion, the brilliant flash
and the cloud of black smoke, ozz's "handler" went into paroxysms of despair
at the amount of time he was going to waste getting it going again when the
power eventually came back.


(*) The JCB partially melted. The driver was less lucky.

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