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Subject:Re: Gerry is ill - suggestions for a server upgrade
From:Steven X. Schwenk
Date:Fri, 21 May 1999 11:05:47 -0700

Steve Macaulay wrote:

> I'm sure a faster server with more memory and disks would help, but if Gerry
> was set up to reboot itself once a week, we may find that the memory leak
> problems that eventually cause Gerry to stop functioning properly go away
> since the "leaked" memory would be reclaimed during the reboot process.  I'm
> not sure how to do this on an NT environment, but it's probably not to
> difficult.

Why don't we try this as a cost-free experiment.  It does not address the slow
archive issue, though, but i bet it fixes the crashing.  Coyote has his NT
machine set up to do this.  I have to re-boot my NT machine every week or so.
It can't hurt to try.  What would speed up the archive searches?