Chkdsk and Defrag

[gemcneill]

I was wondering what all the GSPs out there were doing with Reg scheduled maintenance. I was thinking about moving this to 1 a week and do a server restart, chkdsk , defrag. Is this to often? I dont want to defrag the drive to death, but I am sure that the hard drive fragmentation is high on game server drives. What do yall think?

 

George

[dimitrifrom31]

Im defragging once a week, cant give feedback yet as I started monday.

I used to defrag occasionaly and noticed it was taking hours so decided to make it more frequent.

 

you can schedule a chkdsk at every boot using the task scheduler, mark the drive as dirty in a bat and restart.

[Dan M]

Im defragging once a week, cant give feedback yet as I started monday.

I used to defrag occasionaly and noticed it was taking hours so decided to make it more frequent.

 

you can schedule a chkdsk at every boot using the task scheduler, mark the drive as dirty in a bat and restart.

Let me know how you get on and if it is actually beneficial, server-side based.

[jcroom]

once a week seems a bit obsessive....

[Santino Cid]

I would say about twice a month should be fine for both tasks.

[dimitrifrom31]

I reboot once a week and I can see a real benefit on RAM usage so I decided to defrag aswell before rebooting.

With game servers created/deleted + user files uploaded (new mods etc) you get some GB fragged every week and if you dont defrag frequently it then takes hours. I got HDD of 1Tb so once a week is just fine for me but may be too much for GSP with different configs/customers.

[Xp3r7]

Does defragging while peoples game server turned on lag the game server any at all?

[studeggle]

It can, it depends on how much the hard drive is in use. The hard drive is an essential part of running the game server if it is being overly used then the game server will lag.

[dimitrifrom31]

I defrag just after reboot at 6:30 am when theres no1 on.

[sArAkUzZa]

can someone post me a bat for defrag,and reboot.

I tried defrag C: -f-v but it seems that it is not working.

Also made for restart but it dont work....I am little bit confused, they should work.

So, if it is not problem 4 someone to post it here to see am I doing it right

[dimitrifrom31]

can someone post me a bat for defrag,and reboot.

I tried defrag C: -f-v but it seems that it is not working.

Also made for restart but it dont work....I am little bit confused, they should work.

So, if it is not problem 4 someone to post it here to see am I doing it right

 

thats something u can find in 10 sec on google.

 

reboot :

Tsshutdn 1 /reboot

 

defrag :

defrag c:

[Derek]

Defrag every week reboot every month.

[qisback]

We personally use MyDefrag (used to be jkdefrag)

http://www.mydefrag.com/

 

it has a set of scripts for daily, weekly and monthly defrags, each do different things.

 

It's easy enough to schedule it as well, works a treat!