restart

[jessicasinger1]

i need to know when Linden Labs does a restart, is it necessary to do our own restart as well

[Alwin Alcott]

you can see the restarts announced at the main account page and grid status page

 

when there are no issues, you don't need to restart your region.

[Rhonda Huntress]

If you sim was not affect by the rolling restarts,you may restart it if you wish but it is not necessary.

[Rolig Loon]

Linden Lab's periodic rolling restarts affect their servers, not your viewer.  Your viewer is installed on your own computer and is unaffected by anything that they do with their servers.

In general, it's unwise to clear cache or user settings unless you are directed to do so as part of a repair for a specific problem.  When you do that, it inevitably means that your viewer will run slowly at first while it rebuilds the files you have purged, and you run the risk of having some errors introduced during the new downloads.

You should not normally need to download and install your viewer again unless Linden Lab has released an upgrade or your viewer has developed a serious flaw.  If that happens, it's smart to do a Clean Install.