> I've been a little behind on email...  Or maybe this just took
> a while to sink in:  Back on 29 Oct 97 Richard Gambrell said:
>
> >We've had a HP9000K400 for 2 years with no hardware
> >problems (let's just leave aside the software o.s. - except
> >to say I reboot nightly and often wish I could do it twice daily.)
>
> I assume you are running one of the later versions of HP-UX, if
> not the very latest and greatest ???.....  If this is correct, the
> above strikes me as fairly amazing:  Reboot NIGHTLY ??...

Yes, we're up-to-date on all critical and network patches, running HPUX 10.10.
We'll be moving to 10.20 in December, but I doubt that will help.

The problem is related to networking - it just gets slower as the day goes by
and traffic and connections accumulate, yet I can't find any resource or system
table overloaded. Other weird things happen that are fixed by the reboot. I'd
have to turn it back off to see if some of these things are fixed now, but I'm
too overloaded to worry about it now. Thankfully nobody (yet) needs the system
to stay up all night.

> Often wish you could do it TWICE DAILY ??....  Thinking about
> how there are times we can go several months without rebooting
> our 959KS/200;  and then it's usually because we want to change
> something.  Even the Windows95 PC on my desk will sometimes
> go multiple weeks without having to reboot....
>
My desk PC behaves better, too.
I did have to restart the 3000 yesterday after a FDDI ring problem to get the
network to behave.

> Note that to be fair, we have had a couple cases in the last few
> months where a background job running a third-party product
> has locked up and we could not ABORT it and had to reboot;
> supposedly that is an OS bug that is fixed in 5.5 (we are still
> on 5.0 but going to 5.5 Express 3 as soon as we can get it).
>
> Ken Sletten
>