Mark, No offense meant but in 5 years of NT server maintenance, i've never heard such non-sense.
we run servers for 5-6 months non-stop and except for service packs or security fixes, there is absolutely no need to reboot them EVER. 3 times??? woah! I wonder who gave you that idea... ;) Now, these are dedicated servers - my home computer is another mess and we're talking lots of stuff running... But i never reboot unless i really need to. Micheal Swaine is a Mac bigot and i've never seen a response from him or a non-biased article from him. Believe me, 1 reboot is sufficient - windows does its cleanups before boot and after installations (if the installer does). Have you seen a difference between 1, dos or 3 reboots? I haven't in 5 years ;) - This is not MacOS (where sometimes 2 reboots were better than 1 under some "extension" conditions.) Im sure you'll find the right information at technet.microsoft.com. cheers Xavier MacOS, NT System engineer by trade > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mark Wieder > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 05:11 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Revolution unbooted > > Jon, Chipp- > > Monday, July 18, 2005, 4:11:17 PM, you wrote: > > CW> I concur with Jon. I regularly use 3 separate Windows XP > machines, > CW> and multiple programs on each and never find the NEED TO reboot > CW> them, other than for service patches and app installs. > > The *need* to reboot them is subtler than that. Windows is a > set of multi-level interdependent drivers and libraries that > is dynamically rebuilt each time Windows reboots. My rule of > thumb when making system changes is to reboot three times - > each successive boot builds on the previous dependency model. > Things can get a bit tenuous if Windows isn't allowed to > reassure itself every so often about what's holding it up. > Michael Swaine had a good writeup of the process in an > article a while back called "House of Cards", but I can't > find a reference to it at the moment. > > Granted my rebooting every day my be a bit compulsive, but I > figure it's a good habit to get into and this ensures that it > gets done. > > Jon - your "eventually something becomes unstable" is > *exactly* what I'm talking about. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution