We had one sun server with a single database with about 726 days of uptime. Obviously nobody ever patched anything there :-P. About windows server, the only servers I ever asked to be rebooted weekly were a 9i RAC on windows 2000... and every time they rebooted performance picked up about 20%. It was only for a few weeks until we migrated it to a 10.2 RAC on Linux, though. If you are on at least 10.2.0.5 and on windows 2008, I don't think you need to reboot that frequently, maybe just once a month or fortnight for patching purposes. Also, if you see a performance benefit to rebooting, then maybe you have an oversized SGA (probably an oversized shared pool). cheers Alan.- On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > What Oracle version? Are there not some memory leak bugs in some Oracle > versions? 9.2.0.3 on some Unix versions for one has memory leaks that > require DB restarts as I recall. > <SNIP> > > > > > > > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- > Andrew W. Kerber > > 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l