JSI Tip 9361. How can I schedule a job to stop and start the Server service, freeing resources on server?

If your server occasionally requires a restart to make it perform better, you may be able to schedule the stop and start of the server service to free resources.

When you stop the server service, those services dependent upon the server service will also stop, and need to be restarted after your restart the server service.

I have scripted SSSrvSvc.bat to:

You should schedule SSSrvSvc.bat to run in an Administrator or System context, probably once a day, at a time when the fewest clients are active.

SSSrvSvc.bat contains:

@echo offsetlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSIONgoto skipnet sess /delete /ynet sess /delete /ynet stop Server /y>"%TEMP%Server.log" 2>&1net stop Server /y>>"%TEMP%Server.log" 2>>&1net start Server:skipfor /f "Tokens=1* Delims=:" %%a in ('type "%TEMP%Server.log" ^|Findstr /l /n /v /c:"*$"^|FIND "   "') do ( set line=%%b net start "!line:~3!")del /q "%TEMP%Server.log"endlocal