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Maybe home grade routers.
well, I mean... anything can leak memory. but yeah, enterprise/carrier grade devices are designed to be in continuous use for years and they generally do that pretty well.
Even then, some places will reboot on a schedule when nobody should be using it.
I have some entry level "enterprise" hardware (Mikrotik router and Ubiquiti access point) and I auto-reboot mine weekly. In addition to maintaining performance and minor security wins, it also helps ensure everything csn survive a reboot (e.g. all configurations have persisted to disk).
It's good practice. Some people brag about continuous uptime, I see it as a liability.
It's good practice for patching purposes. You should always be maintaining stable OS versions and a memory leak or the like is fairly uncommon. I think I've seen it once in my career on a particular check point OS version.
Yeah, I'm more worried about keeping up on patches and ensuring things will start back up properly than memory leaks. But minor security and performance wins are nice too.