Comment by adiabatichottub
3 hours ago
Well, my experience on the stable release branches is that there aren't all that many kernel updates, so if you keep your services patched then you really only need to reboot about every 6 months.
3 hours ago
Well, my experience on the stable release branches is that there aren't all that many kernel updates, so if you keep your services patched then you really only need to reboot about every 6 months.
> … stable … about every 6 months.
Maybe slightly optimistic.
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/13
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/14
https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/15
>> … stable … about every 6 months.
> Maybe slightly optimistic.
The longest without rebooting two prod FreeBSD servers I was once responsible for, including applying userland patches, was roughly 3000 days (just over 8 years).