how many days before you should do a server restart?

[xFaNtASyGiRLx]

my server has been up for 5 days full. which is amazing and i am surprised it hasn't crashed! i guess R19 is pretty stable afterall. although- i still get these blaze disconnects more often.

so when do you guys restart your server? i usually do if i see it empty but since it hasn't been, i haven't done so.

i noticed the memory slightly increases over time and its 485.76.

am i looking at a crash soon? should i go ahead & do a scheduled restart or should i go for the record and see how many days i could go?

[Firejack]

Server auto restarts at 600MB I believe. So you will want to manually reboot sometime soon.

[K]

You can set clanforge to auto restart your server when empty, so if your concerned about uptime then you can use that.

[EntraVenuS]

or failing that we can have a race see who can stay up the longest.. The winner wins a straw donkey

[xFaNtASyGiRLx]

Originally Posted by EntraVenuS

or failing that we can have a race see who can stay up the longest.. The winner wins a straw donkey

how many days have yours been up and how much memory are you at?

[xFaNtASyGiRLx]

i decided to restart just now when i hit the 500 memory. it was 64 players full and it pained me to hit the restart button :P

so go ahead & keep the donkey entravenus!!

[LtMatt]

I'll take the donkey if theres one spare. Ahem.

[EntraVenuS]

Originally Posted by K

You can set clanforge to auto restart your server when empty, so if your concerned about uptime then you can use that.

Ok i gotta ask the question. How do i do this please?

[K]

Servers -> Edit -> Auto Restart

[EntraVenuS]

Originally Posted by K

Servers -> Edit -> Auto Restart

and that restarts when empty?

[xFaNtASyGiRLx]

oh, i thought that just restarted the server after a crash. i didn't know that it would restart your server when empty.

[EntraVenuS]

Originally Posted by K

You can set clanforge to auto restart your server when empty, so if your concerned about uptime then you can use that.

this is what i was refering to

[K]

Correct it will restart the server after the specified about of uptime, only once the server has reported zero players for over 2 mins.

[Firejack]

Cool.. I never knew that!
Not-so-cool.. changing the auto restart setting restarts your server. Yeah, I just emptied my full server

[K]

Ahh yes Active = "Auto Restart" and as a change was made it will action perform a restart

Will look to see if we can put a special case for this in at some point.

[EntraVenuS]

Originally Posted by Firejack

Cool.. I never knew that!
Not-so-cool.. changing the auto restart setting restarts your server. Yeah, I just emptied my full server

i fell for that some time back.. make sure server is empty before applying that

[MadDoggyDawg]

Originally Posted by K

Ahh yes Active = "Auto Restart" and as a change was made it will action perform a restart

Will look to see if we can put a special case for this in at some point.

So when is this auto restart happening? If I choose NO, this mean it will not restart at all and at any time right?

[K]

Sorry I don't follow you? Auto-Restart happens as often as you've configured it assuming the server empties out at some point.

[MadDoggyDawg]

Originally Posted by K

Sorry I don't follow you? Auto-Restart happens as often as you've configured it assuming the server empties out at some point.

That makes more sense and how much amount of memory is assigned per server?

[K]

As much as is required by the server, I dont remember offhand what that is for BF3.

[LtMatt]

Why does the server have to restart?

[EntraVenuS]

Originally Posted by LtMatt

Why does the server have to restart?

cos the hamster running around in the wheel that powers the server needs a break .

heres lon016 in full swing just before my server crash the other day

[MadDoggyDawg]

Originally Posted by K

As much as is required by the server, I dont remember offhand what that is for BF3.

So it doesnt restart at 600mb as people say around here then? Otherwise its all cool.

[K]

Quite likely as 600mb is way too high for a BF3 server, so if your seeing that you would be experiencing a nasty memory leak.

[MadDoggyDawg]

Originally Posted by K

Quite likely as 600mb is way too high for a BF3 server, so if your seeing that you would be experiencing a nasty memory leak.

Ok makes sense.. well I will be watching that out then.. thx