Time to reboot

[nate]

Originally Posted by blogman

I do updates on my server only if must, it's not desktop where i want to get the latest version of my packages.

top - 00:30:33 up 330 days, 18 min,
and my second server:
top - 23:52:46 up 151 days, 12:42

Damn, thats an old kernel. Aren't you worried about exploits?

[rooty]

[root@????? ~]# uptime
11:41:54 up 867 days, 13:35, 5 users, load average: 12.57, 15.02, 15.63

hehe this is still fedora 5... good thing its not live on the net but only on internal networks.

im scared to reboot it to be honest!

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by rooty

[root@????? ~]# uptime
11:41:54 up 867 days, 13:35, 5 users, load average: 12.57, 15.02, 15.63

hehe this is still fedora 5... good thing its not live on the net but only on internal networks.

im scared to reboot it to be honest!

Wow. That's one hell of a load average you have there as well! I'd probably reboot it but with the host and a tech (unmanaged?) on standby.

[rooty]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

Wow. That's one hell of a load average you have there as well! I'd probably reboot it but with the host and a tech (unmanaged?) on standby.

It hosted in our own rack. the load being more or less its normal as its a mysql master doing random reads/writes to a 12GB database while two (sex) slaves eats humps of its juice too.

[whitey]

Originally Posted by nate

Damn, thats an old kernel. Aren't you worried about exploits?

My personal belief is that people get overly worried about kernel updates. Unless they are critical updates, I rarely update my kernels. Once a server has been online 3-4 years, I ask the DC to give me a new box with new kernels and OS.

Once I have a box running well, I tend to leave it alone except for system and software updates.