Production Weekly Rolling Tomcat Restarts

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/26/13 2:14 PM, "Royder, Kyle D" <kroyder at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

>shib users:
> 
>  I¹ve inherited a Shibboleth service that includes 3 IdP.  There is a
>cron job on each machine to restart tomcat automatically once a week, on
>different days, for each machine.  I can't find any discussion as to why
>this was setup this
> way.  Is it normal or recommended for a high traffic IdP tomcat instance
>to be restarted regularly and I¹m just missing something in the
>Productionalization section on the wiki?

I can't speak for Tomcat, but if you need to do that, you need a different
container. So no, it's not a recommended practice, it's a good sign
something is seriously wrong.

-- Scott