Date:         Fri, 21 May 1999 20:07:13 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Gerry is ill - suggestions for a server upgrade
Comments: To: "Steven X. Schwenk" <Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM>
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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?
>
>

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