>they used to go years without rebooting Unix servers A coworker was getting ready to do a RAM upgrade on a Solaris system that hadn't been rebooted in multipl

>they used to go years without rebooting Unix servers A coworker was getting ready to do a RAM upgrade on a Solaris system that hadn't been rebooted in multiple years. I suggested to him: Before you do the RAM upgrade, try just rebooting the box to make sure it comes up WITHOUT the RAM upgrade. The day after the upgrade he came to me: "That was brilliant! We rebooted the box and it didn't come back up, it saved us time debugging why the RAM upgrade broke the system."