[geeks] DST hell

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/03/11 Sun PM 11:30:17 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] DST hell

>" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>" 
>" 
>" Then there are the memory leaks... I know quite a few shops locally have to
>" reboot their Windows servers at least once a week to get rid of memory
>" leaks.  Just restarting the offending services won't fix it.
>
>back in the mid/late '90s when i was shopping for a new isp, several
>told me that their windows servers wouldn't go a week without
>crashing.  only one was proactive, scheduling twice-weekly preemptive
>reboots.
>
>i guess things haven't changed much...

They have changed greatly  MS now has cluster and load-balancing software, along with Virtual Server - the required reboots no longer impact production! That is a big step forward...

Lionel