How often do websphere process or application servers need to be restarted?

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am a system admin. my boss is asking us to reboot production IBM WebSphere process or application server every week. I understand that, it was a good practice to reboot server often long back release stale connections etc.

But, i believe now all the software has become robust/reliable. I do not think, reboot is needed every week. (I personally prefer, reboot when needed)

Please provide your suggestions.

thank you.

i'm planning to prepare shell scripts to automate reboot of websphere weekly (non-prod followed by prod) — SE1984ad, Jan 22 '16 at 15:35
If your servers **need** to be rebooted regularly to keep them running properly then they're broken. — joeqwerty, Jan 22 '16 at 16:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '16 at 18:36

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There is no need nor recommendation, unless you're aware a specific (and slow) resource leak. It might be someones overall opinion that this is the way software should be managed, but it's nothing intrinsic to WebSphere Application Server.

answered Jan 22 '16 at 18:36

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