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> I know many stable redhat servers that didn’t need to reboot for years.

That's not actually something to brag about, as it implies they weren't receiving important kernel updates, particularly security updates.



So, we do ~daily restarts on our customers' systems. We have a solid 12 hours per day to patch up a server before it needs to be in production again.

That said. We communicate directly with other systems on the same premises that probably haven't been rebooted in over a decade.

Building something that can run 10 years without downtime is not happenstance. It is very intentional and deliberate engineering.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpatch

Allows you to patch the kernel without reboot.


As mentioned above, they were, both RedHat and Ubuntu now support kernel updates without restart.




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