Excerpts from info-afs: 14-Feb-96 restart of bos server
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> At our lab we tend to run many jobs during the night hours in addition
> to the normal heavy load of people running jobs during the day. This
> has narrowed down the times during which we can allow the weekly bos
> restart to run without having any impact (re: bos setrestart). Has
> anyone tried turning off the automatic bos restart that by default
> happens at 4:00 a.m. Sundays? Has anyone seen problems result from
> turning off bos restart? And lastly, if there are any other sites out
> there in a situation similar to ours, what has been your solution?
We have disabled the restart. Our servers are a mix of SPARC Classic
servers and SPARCserver 10/40 servers running SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and AFS
3.3a software. For reasons we've yet to understand, the bosserver seems
to exit w/o a trace after about 200 days. Being an academic institution,
it isn't too hard to plan to restart all of the servers during term
breaks.
Note: If you've got to stop the fileserver w/o bos, SIGQUIT is the
correct signal. SIGTERM won't do it.
steve
ps. The last exchange I had w/ Transarc on this problem (Jan. 1996)
indicated that a bug in 3.3a bosserver which would cause bosserver to
die if it failed to open the console for writing had been fixed in 3.4.
The support rep. suggested that there may still be problems which make
restarting bos periodically a good idea, though.
