Comment by adiabatichottub
5 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.
5 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
Fair, but to my point none of those security patches for 14.2 or 14.3 that required a reboot were critical for our use case. I'm more worried about people's crappy Wordpress blogs getting hacked.
>> … 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).