[Info-ingres] Restarting Ingres

[Paul White]

Hi Steve,

Our client's MS Windows installations are restarted every 1 to 3 months 
due to OS patches and hosting provider requirements. I think the longest 
continues runtime on one server was about 2 years.

The Linux/Unix servers get a restart about once a year since Ingres 
supports 24x7 operations. Generally I don't patch the OS on these 
servers. They run for 4 to 5 years trouble free then are migrated to new 
Infrastructure/OS together with a major Ingres upgrade.   The longest 
runtime I recall was about 2 years on a Solaris V880.

The DR / replication servers are restarted more often for testing purposes.

Exceptional outages occur when a power pole is knocked down, UPS fails 
or the computer room air conditioner fails.

Paul


On 14/06/2021 1:28 pm, Steve wrote:
> On Monday, June 14, 2021 at 2:48:09 AM UTC+10, Martin Bowes wrote:
>
>> We tend to restart only when the situation demands. This means we would normally achieve uptime measured in months. I've not seen a compelling argument to stop and restart more often than that.
> Thanks Marty.
>
> Can I ask what situations, apart from patching or upgrading, might cause you to restart Ingres?
>
> Steve
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