> 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 had a lot of difficulties because long jobs which were running
during the weekly bos restarts tended to abort, and because often
the bos server simply stopped without restarting. At first, we
moved the weekly restart to Tuesday, so that most machines could
be checked manually soon after restarting. Further problems arose
because of the restarting of the three data base servers at the
same time, so we moved those to Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Eventually, about a year ago, we disabled the weekly bos restart
completely. We have not since seen any problems which we can
definitely attribute to the lack of a weekly restart, only the
usual problems. And these are far fewer than they were two years
ago. One of the data base servers recently had to be rebooted
after nine months of uninterrupted running.
-- Owen
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