Server restarts still necessary?

[digital0 22]

Hi all

I've read somewhere that you should restart your server all 6 hours. Now for the most part of last month I did that as well as possible.

But is it really necessary? I've found whenever I managed to not restart it (had a 3 day phase) I simply felt no difference on my server.

So far I see a restart as more damaging for the experience (restoring of tents and sometimes their gear in it). Or vehicles/tents vanish after a restart.

Is there some bloating going on in the server files, maybe logs?

Actually now that I think about it, my server host never even once mentioned restarting the server to be necessary.

[suspense 210]

Its nessesary as long as object cleanup is bugged. If you didnt feel a difference after 3 days of no restart, your server must have had 5 players lol.

Currently, most of the full servers experience 5-10 minute loading times due to object cleanup being bugged.

Edited August 5, 2012 by Suspenselol

[masterzero 0]

yes

When the server restarts there are new crashed heli sites spawned as thay dont respawn loot on one lot of loot for the crash, also it give a server a chance to dump some temp files