How to periodically restart Jira?

[Christian Schneider]

Hi dear community,

we are running Jira 8.13 on Ubuntu and our test-system periodically stops working due to out of memory.

As this is only happening on our testsystem and basially only afects myself, I would like to have a quick and easy solution. I tried to stop and start jira manually, which solved the issue.

I tried to implement a cron-job to stop and restart jira every monday night, but it doesn't work - well the event triggers, but jira does not stop, nor restart. 

# Jira Service jeden Montag Morgen um 00:00 stoppen
0 0 * * 1 /etc/init.d/jira stop

# Jira Service jeden Montag Morgen um 00:03 wieder starten
3 0 * * 1 /etc/init.d/jira start

Logs are not very helpful.

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Sep 19 23:58:40 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:54899->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 19 23:59:01 cl1app-06-t CRON[6966]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 60 2)
Sep 20 00:00:01 cl1app-06-t CRON[6972]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/jira stop)
Sep 20 00:00:01 cl1app-06-t CRON[6971]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Sep 20 00:00:40 cl1app-06-t systemd[1]: Starting Discard unused blocks...
Sep 20 00:00:40 cl1app-06-t systemd[1]: Started Discard unused blocks.
Sep 20 00:02:05 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:65020->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:05 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:65036->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:15 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:65223->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:20 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:65316->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:25 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:58052->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:30 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:58151->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:35 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:58239->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:40 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:58428->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:45 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:58513->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:50 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:59024->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:02:55 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:59113->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:03:00 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:51711->[10.50.70.206]:161
Sep 20 00:03:01 cl1app-06-t CRON[7002]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/jira start)
Sep 20 00:03:01 cl1app-06-t CRON[7001]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Sep 20 00:03:05 cl1app-06-t snmpd[1148]: Connection from UDP: [10.50.70.65]:51800->[10.50.70.206]:161

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Any help is very much appreciated.

[Christian Schneider]

Hi everybody,

we did an upgrade to version 8.19.1, which solved the issue. No periodical restart nessesary.

Unfortunately, version 8.19.1 has a bug, which affects us:

• "we couldn't load screens" Error (atlassian.com)
• Customer Portal: Choose whether you need search (atlassian.com)

[Fadoua]

@Chris Schneider 

You shouldn't have this problem. I won't suggest you to restart the service every week. There are instances running 24/7

If you are seeing an Out of Memory issue that means your system doesn't meet may be the required configuration. Please check the following doc:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/jira-applications-installation-requirements-938846826.html

Let me know if you have any questions

Best,

Fadoua

[Christian Schneider]

Thank you very much for your replay. Our live-system is running 24/7 without any (memory) issues.

I will check your link. But as I indicated, this only affects me and I cannot allocate more ressources to the system. A simple reboot would do the trick. :-)

[Fadoua]

Sometimes too much can create a problem as well. This is from experience. 

Best way is to check Atlassian System requirements. It is very helpful.

All the best,

Fadoua