Re: [Cialug] daily reboot cronjob

[Tom Pohl <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would look into other possibilities.  Could it be that your server 
just needs more ram?

-Tom

On Sep 9, 2004, at 7:45 AM, neal daringer wrote:

> the biggest problem i'm having is with apache not serving web pages as 
> fast as it can. after about a month uptime it tends to start to get 
> slower and slower, mostly with php/mysql webpages (i.e. webmail). 
> regular html web pages pull up fast all the time. is it possible it 
> has something to do w/ mysql and not apache? or could it be php? from 
> what i remember php was a clean install with no problems. same with 
> mysql. the system is kindof lackish in the available disk space area 
> <1gb is unused. could this be a problem?
>
> At 07:24 AM 9/9/2004, you wrote:
> > Have you tried to figure out why your machine needs to be rebooted 
> > daily? Can you quantify what you mean by "tends to run better" after 
> > a reboot? I ask because i only reboot for power outages, moving a 
> > machine, and the occasional security update to the kernel. It is not 
> > unusual for me to have an uptime approaching a year, and i believe 
> > there are others on this list that have had uptimes far longer than 
> > that. I think you may be better served by trying to figure out what 
> > is broken that you want to reboot daily.
> >
> > But if you really want to reboot every day, look in either the 
> > system's or root's crontab for a line that runs daily jobs. Mine 
> > looks like this:
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > Just make a copy of that line and change the /etc/cron.daily to 
> > something like /sbin/reboot. You'll probably also want to change the 
> > time so as not to conflict with anything else. The line above is set 
> > to run at 4:02 every morning. If you changed the 02 to 32 that should 
> > be good enough.
> >
> > At 06:56 AM 9/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > >any of you know a good command i could put in cron to reboot my linux
> > >box
> > >daily (tends to run better after it has a good reboot). i don't want 
> > to
> > >try
> > >something only to find out that its in an endless loop of rebooting.
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