I didn't guessed the reboot as a solution for problems and difficulties, but just for
killing zombies and so on. Looking at middle-class workstations (and I think
Intel-based PC are belonging to that group) it makes sense to reboot them from time to
time. Most times every process (zombies also) take a piece of memory (ram, swap,
whatever) and you "waste" memory by not killing them.
Maybe there is a problem in the source code of the programs so that they do not finish
right and laying around as zombies after execution. Then you should have a look for
the problem, but for keeping the workstation running, a reboot maybe a good choice. So
it is/maybe a work-around.
But to guess, everybody who reboots his machine from time to time is a
NT-installer/user is not the right way to give advice.
Greetings, Dietmar
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> On 12-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yeah, and everybody who owns a HP workstation (like we do, and we reboot them
> > nearly every night by cron) is a NT-installer in silent?
> >
> > I noticed systems running for about two or three weeks holding a lot of
> > processes which are sleeping; any process started new gets a process id like
> > 25394 and higher. It's not a real solution to reboot - I know - but I gave
> > the advice based on my own experiences.
> >
> > If you have your own opinion - send it in order to discuss.
>
> hi,
>
> so we are speaking about real zombies which cannot be stopped?
> for all others, there should be way (a kind of "fixing"
> or even "killing" watchdog process maybe) to keep the
> machine clean without rebooting, right?
> IMHO sometimes it really makes sense to restart some
> trouble-making application frequently as a bug-workaround,
> especially when you are not the programmer and don't even have
> the sourcecode available. but booting the whole box looks a little bit
> exaggerated, right?
>
> cya-
> frank
>
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