Re: SCO Login Problems

From: Peter McGill (pamcgill_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:25:47 GMT

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:07:43 GMT, Bill Andersen <bill@mwdental.com>
wrote:

>Peter wrote:
>> Do you need 100% up time?
>> Are you running a web server or something else?
>>
>> I am running a box which just requires login during office hours.
>> What I do is schedule it to reboot every night.
>
>Peter,
>
>Not that this may not work as a temporary solution, but if it were
>me, I'd rather figure out WHY the login gets slow and fix THAT problem.
>

>I don't have an answer for "bernie" other than to keep looking for
>the problem. This "fix" will work in the short run, but even if
>you don't need 100% uptime, something isn't right on your box or
>the login wouldn't continue to get slower. And what other problems
>will get fixed when you figure out the cause of this one? Some you
>may not even know about...
>
>Peter, you haven't rubbed up against a Windows box lately have you?
>Wanting to reboot every night looks like a symptom of the Windows Viri
><grin>
>
>Bill
>

True Fixing the cause of the problem is best.

My system doesn't have a specific problem that requires it to reboot.

It's just been my experience, that every computer and every operating
system, wether unix, windows, or whatever needs to be rebooted every
once in a while. Even unix gets dead processes stuck in memory that
there is no other way to get rid of. Programs have memory leaks,
etc... If you don't have a regular reboot schedule then eventually the
problems stack up and cause noticable side effects, even bringing down
the whole server. True unix is better at managing these problems than
other operating systems, but it is not immune.

Since our severs don't need to be up all day, I just get ahead of the
problem and reboot frequently. Simple but effective.

Peter

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