eBay did the scheduled reboot thing around 2000, but on a massive scale. Their front-end servers were Windows ISAPI, and leaked memory like a sieve. So there w

eBay did the scheduled reboot thing around 2000, but on a massive scale. Their front-end servers were Windows ISAPI, and leaked memory like a sieve. So there was a documented process for rebooting groups of servers with a diagram dividing the front-end servers into rebootable clusters and the time between reboot intervals. And yes, docker/k8s sure reminds me of those days when reviewing logs today and seeing some pods with unexplained non-zero restart counts. Source: worked there, read the documentation.