On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Okay, this might be well known but I had never seen any postingsd or > allusions > to it and I thought it was kinda cool. > > You can run the service script from within Mandriva using the -R option and > it > will automatically restart all services that are currently running on the > box. On a server, this is actually kind of neat to do on a regular basis > because it is not as traumatic as a full reboot but you still can clear out > temporary files, swap space, and it helps with any possible memory leaks that > might have been sucking up your resources. > > On my server which has just under 1 GB of RAM, I routinely run with 640M free > of memory after the initial start. After 2-3 days, I am usually down to > about 512M of free memory with maybe 8-10 MB of swap used. After > running /sbin/service -R, which takes about 2 minutes to complete, I am back > up to 674M of free memory with 0 swap used. > > Another benefit, if you add new services or daemons, you don't have to keep > track of any of them, the service command will restart everything that is > currently running, a one shot deal. > > Thought that I would post this just in case anyone else finds it useful.
Actually, I didn't know about that and THAT little trick has just returned some great benefit to remote servers I have to deal with (both RH and Mandrake/Mandriva/Man-whatever. Awesome little ditty there...going to test it out on the SuSE box to see if that does it there as well...coolbeans....great tip/trick! -- YankDownUnder aka stephen kuhn #mandriva channel op - irc.freenode.net Mandriva Official IRC Support ----------------------------------------------- Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- Make it right before you make it faster.
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