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Originally Posted by semarmendemx
I'm curious whether there are any requirements from best practice point of view to restart freebsd box periodically.
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That seems to be conventional thinking with regards to Windows servers, but I've never known it to be recommended for any Linux or *BSD server. Many of my Linux systems have been up and running 900 days, though I do follow the OpenBSD team's advice and reboot my OpenBSD machines (for operating system upgrade) once every six months (unless it's CURRENT, in which case reboots come much, much sooner =).
IMHO, if there would be any reason to make it a hard requirement, software and security updates would be it...and even then a reboot is only necessary for kernel updates.