[gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

[Grant Edwards]

I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7.  I've
learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them
occasionally (when I have some spare time and I know they're idle)
just to make they still can.

I've settled on roughly once a month or so.

What seems to happen if I don't do this is that some update (or
perhaps just a stupid configuration mistake on my part) will render
the machine non-bootable, and I won't discover it until several months
later at the worst possible moment when I'm in the middle of something
urgent and the power fails, or I type "reboot" into the wrong xterm,
or whatever.  Or maybe those things don't happen to other people...

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