Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week

[hheellll]

I have a small bitcoin mining farm with twelve Antminer S1's.

I want to set it up in an exemplary manner as far as management of this farm is concerned. I do it for selfish reasons, so as to make the maximum amount of money and to make it easy to manage them. Th that end, for instance, I already monitor them to make sure that I know when some of them are down. It already helped me when a cheap power strip tripped its breaker, I knew about it in an hour.

For my other (non-antminer) Linux servers, like algebra.com webservers and others, I reboot them on a regular basis, once a week. This seems to be the best strategy and it makes lock-ups extremely rare.

I am wondering if I should, perhaps, reboot antminer S1's on schedule also, such as once per week. Do antminers lock up due to software reasons, in your experience?

thanks

[Airwhale]

I leave my Ants on for several weeks at a time and I don't notice any difference from when they first go on.

The exception,  from what I have seen,  is if I do a bad job managing heat and the chips get too hot.  If heat is a concern for you,  you might want to reboot every 24-48 hours.

[Xian01]

No. No reason to reboot them at all.

[philipma1957]

use mDudes program  it monitors them   and if you get x's   it auto boots.
 his thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596178.0


note:

 x's are reason to boot. as they cost hashpower

[xjack]

My ant never stops - don't poke the bear.

DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3.

[dulac97]

My ant never stops - don't poke the bear.

DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3.

Can you link to where to get kano's antminer firmware and the concept of system load?   Thanks!

[xjack]

My ant never stops - don't poke the bear.

DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3.

Can you link to where to get kano's antminer firmware and the concept of system load?   Thanks!

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages

[dulac97]

Thanks so much!

[BTCLotto]

Most electronics will last longer if left on. It reduces the amount of heat cycles thus lowering the stress created from that.

[CoinToTheMax]

It is better to let them running without restart, as mentioned above, they will last longer if just leaved in constant working load.