On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > We run several openafs servers at NCSU on Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. > > By default, the servers restart every Sunday morning at 4:00am. This was not > a problem until we asked another group to take over our backups. They are > saying that the server restarts are causing problems with the backups > because of the schedule. > > My boss mentioned that the restart feature was added in transarc 3.2. We are > running openAFS 1.4.11. > > Is the restart still needed? If we don't have a restart will we see memory > leaks? Do other organizations have experience with turning the restart off? > Did it hurt anything having it turned off? Anyone doing longer restarts by > using crons to kick off the restarts like once per month instead of once per > week in the BosConfig file? Would doing that be a bad idea? >
Automatic restarts are not normally needed -- I know of many sites that turned off weekly restarts years (e.g., 10+) ago. I don't know of anyone using bos cron jobs to kick off restarts once per month, but that's certainly doable and not a bad idea. Also, even longer gaps between restarts is common (e.g., on the order of once or twice per year). Steven Jenkins _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
