[OpenAFS] Setting the BOS Server's Restart Times

[Thomas Kula]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Gary Gatling <gsgatlin@eos.ncsu.edu> 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?

We turned off weekly restarts at umich.edu at least before I got
here three years ago. The only times we do cell-wide restarts are
before the start of major semesters (just so we know every
machine would restart if any of them had an issue) and when it's
easier to do a at-once restart to do upgrades than it would be to
do rolling upgrades. 


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