More CPU and more memory is the solution to faster archives. At 11:05 21/05/1999 -0700, Steven X. Schwenk wrote: >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? > > -- David Marshall - Vanagon List Admin - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 84 VW Westie, 85 VW Cabriolet -- -- 87 Audi 5000 Quattro, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab -- -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) -- |
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