Hi,
Schedule restart for tomcat 3.2 server has very important effect in the whole web server performance, and this because of the following reasons 1-it cleans up all hung threads 2-it frees memory and provides more efficient way to release unused memory 3-it updates the cache especially if the reload option is off 4-it reinitializes all variables and parameters 5-it enhance server speed So one of most important recommendation for tomcat 3.2 is to make a schedule restart such every week or two days to enhance over all performance and remedy all hung processes Regards Antoni Angllenee MSC, Unix System Administrator --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears