Date:         Fri, 21 May 1999 14:36:39 -0700
Reply-To:     "Pollard, Matthew" <Matthew.Pollard@OREADCA.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Pollard, Matthew" <Matthew.Pollard@OREADCA.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gerry is ill - suggestions for a server upgrade
Comments: To: "Steven X. Schwenk" <Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM>
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The archives are not slow.  Like any relationship, one must know how to talk
to each other. Lets take Gerry, if you www search her, she frowns and yells
at you. But if you are nice and gently and send her an email search she
loves it.  Heck, who doesn't like getting email :-) Apparently not us as we
get about 60 a day as it is from Gerry!  To seach the archives, send an
email to listserv@gerry.vanagon.com with the body of the letter in this form
(w/o the quotes) "seach framdampners in vanagan" that is it.  (Framdampners
is what you are searching for.)  Give it a whirl.  It works great and this
way the boss thinks you are working and not surfing then net. Surfing is a
big no-no :-( at work (so i'm told...)

peace and have a great weekend kids,
Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven X. Schwenk [SMTP:Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 11:06 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: Gerry is ill - suggestions for a server upgrade
>
> 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?