Does ESRI recommend not rebooting servers?
Rebooting of an ESRI server can happen for a list of reasons....but maintenance or updates are the norm, or as a last resort when the application stops responding and ESRI support asks if we can reboot the server in the middle of the day, etc etc etc.
I would suggest that if rebooting is not recommended...1. it be documented and 2. the software be more stable. For the record, every ESRI course I have ever taken and every ESRI tech person I have talked to in the last 6 years says "rebooting AGS weekly ensures the best health and performance"...clearing hung processes, clearing temp directories, freeing up RAM, etc.
I think all of our services are set to 2 min. We can change to 1 min but 0 min causes "service not available" errors in the web map on our lessor used services until it gets woke up and the SOC process starts, this causes end users to call and report issues and errors that go away with a refresh after a few minutes but clog the phone lines and email. So setting to 0 is not an option.
Not sure about the original poster.....
Aaron
