[geeks] Speaking of Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

[David Selders]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:09:21AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I am training now for the CCA (Citrix Certified Administrator on 
> Metaframe XP 1.0)
> 
> a quote right out of the training materials (Osborne book)
> 
> "Reboot Schedule
> Periodic server reboots can be scheduled using the Reboot Schedule tab 
> for each server.  It is a good practice to reboot servers on a regular 
> basis.  The reason for this is that applications housed on the server 
> can cause memory leaks that tie up valuable resources on your servers.
> 
> On the Job: It is best to reboot MetaFrame Servers nightly if you do 
> not run 24/7 application access to your users.  Rebooting in the middle 
> of the night is a good practice.  Keep your backup job in mind, 
> however, whenever you schedule your server's reboot schedule.  You 
> don't want your MetaFrame server rebooting itself in the middle of its 
> backup."
> 
> Andrew
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Sounds like the management from my $WORKPLACE read that book.  We got one guy 
that comes in like every other weekend to reboot all the servers.  We are mostly 
a netware shop and he doesn't know a thing about Solaris so I told him not to 
touch my nameservers.  The W2k boxes we have running terminal services don't
require a nightly reboot yet.  I would say they should be rebooted at least
once a week though.  It's funny if they don't get a reboot for a while they
just spontanesouly reboot sometime during the day.

-- 
David Selders
david at malleable.org
Martinez, Ca