Longest run without restarting

[alberto (Alberto Lopes)]

Here is a somehow silly question: what is the longest run without restarting for Plone installation you've seen?

This is just for anecdotal purposes. I commented with a colleague about a Plone installation running for two years straight without any intervention, but I guess some of you with more experience than me might have some more impressive examples.

[rileydog (Wayne Glover)]

there is a long discussion on the need (or not) of restarting. you might find it interresting

Is auto stop/restart of site still needed to prevent memory build up

[C]Python's memory management does not use compaction. Any long running application with heavy non-formalized heap usage (such a Plone) without memory compaction tends to suffer from memory fragmentation and correspondingly increased memory usage. Things might have improved but likely you still will not be able to run your Plone processes for years.