I've noticed that if I restart apache while I'm in the middle of a download (MP3 stream), after the buffer in my MP3 player runs out, it skips to the next track -- presumably because the connection was closed.
This might cause a problem for you if your users are downloading big files. They might have to restart from the beginning if they didn't cache the partial download somewhere. -Allen On Mon, 20 May 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 9:30 pm, Gregory Matthews wrote: > > I too thought of setting a cron job to restart the server once per day in > > order to keep the memory "fresh". > > > > In a production environment, are there any downsides to doing this, i.e., > > server inaccessibility, etc..? > > It's very rare to have a site that can't cope with just a few seconds > downtime. Most users won't even notice, save for some slight delay in getting > their request through. Users tend to be pretty used to trying again in this > world of "reliable" computing. > > Matt. >
