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.