Are you rebooting your MySQL server at night?

I'de like to share input send to me by a leading MySQL provider, mostly deploying ecommerce and telco applications on Linux.

One instance is up since 1414 days not bad ....

 
18:13:02 up 355 days,  4:50,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
18:13:03 up 594 days,  5:04,  0 users,  load average: 1.20, 1.25, 1.26
18:13:03 up 48 days, 22:10,  0 users,  load average: 0.48, 0.38, 0.29
18:13:03 up 936 days,  7:50,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
18:13:03 up 173 days,  2:39,  0 users,  load average: 1.90, 1.79, 1.79
18:13:04 up 244 days,  3:25,  0 users,  load average: 3.96, 3.66, 3.90
18:13:04 up 643 days, 15:50,  0 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.07
18:13:04 up 642 days,  5:15,  0 …