Re: [WinMac] Scheduling NT server to restart

Romeyn Prescott(prescor[at]potsdam.edu)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:17:28 -0500

>Hi
>
>I hope someone can help. When I start the NT server, the Task Manager
>reports about 62Mb in the MEM Usage screen. A week later, and this figure
>can climb to about 90Mb, due I guess to memory leaks like in Mac OS.
>
>How can I set-up my NT 4 Server to automatically restart periodically, say
>every Sunday at 3 am? I have checked out the AT command but confess to
>feeling intimidated! Is there a utility / command that will free-up this
>memory, so I don't have to restart?
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>
>
>Richard Dugan
>(r.dugan@vcc.org.nz)
>

I dare say the best solution is to find out what is leaking your memory and
plug the leak. We recently suffered from a leak in Timbuktu Pro 32 which
was rectified by a patch from Farallon. Restarting your server
periodically is not a good short-term solution.

JMHO,
...ROMeyn

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