How often do you reboot or cycle your service?

[RedSoxM3]

Do you have a scheduled maintenance for rebooting or cycling the service? Or how often do you do it out of necessity? UNIX or Windows?

 

[BocaBurger]

Depends on the version of Windows: W98 20 times a day.
NT 4.0, twice a day.



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[RedSoxM3]

I see you are a UNIX man.

We're Windows 2000 on 6.7.1 and bounce the service every 4 days or so out of necessity. But I am trying to get a regular schedule of weekly re-boots and cycling the service every other day just to get rid of cached errors, memory etc.

 

[BocaBurger]

I'll use a Mac too, oh yeah, that run on UNIX now too.



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[eyetry]

We run 671 on w2k. We reboot once per month. It's tied to server maint/patch sched.

In addition I asked tech services to schedule weekly windows disk cleanups and another cleanup script I wrote to get rid of old temp and log files. Neither of which require rebooting or shutting down of services.

Periodically, when things seem to be going whacky and a special reboot request doesn't resolve the issue and no new/updated sercies have been deployed I request a defrag. (about once every 4-6 months).

Services get restarted as needed based on deployments and GPFs etc....

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