Reasons for Preemptive reboot

[galli]

I have a query, does windows 2003 require the preemptive reboots that nt4 needed (for freeing up memory etc), or is it more LINUX like in its stability?

I am trying to put together a server room to do list and I wondered if I should keep this in or not????

Cheers

Ben

 

[NickFerrar]

No it doesn't, unless you have a memory-leaking application running on it. Our Windows 2000/2003 servers stay up months at a time (they would stay up longer if it weren't for upgrades and server room power/air-con upgrade work etc.).

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Yep absolutely i only ever need to reboot after applying patches even on our busy servers. Hopefully after SP1 even this shouldn't be necessary unless it's a Kernel patch.

"Hot patching

One of my own personal SP1 favorites is the hot patching feature that allows you to patch your system binaries even if they are currently in use. By actually patching the binaries in memory, this new feature will significantly reduce the number of reboots required for hotfixes. You will still need to reboot after updating kernel-level binaries, but as always, the fewer reboots the better."


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