Do Regular Reboots Improve Performance?

[rbautch]

Is there any benefit at all to rebooting a Tivo regularly, say once/week? Might it clear out some caches and actually improve performance slightly?

[rc3105]

really depends on what all you're running. reboots shouldn't make a difference on a stock factory config


regular reboot is a good idea if any of the following apply:

running 17 different utils + the kitchen sink, particularly anything with a memory leak

bloatware installed (some tw modules qualify)

using experimental network/device drivers

[Jamie]

using experimental network/device driversnaw, they crash the kernel often enough that any extra reboots are redundant :-)