Thus it was written in the epistle of Donna Garverick,
> Robert Browett wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys (& Gals,where applicable),
>
> i guess i resemble the later :-)

fairly well, actually :-)

> > Anyway, the point of this rant is this; do you still need
> > that reboot to clear out the trash, or I'm I even
> > more redundant than I thought?
>
> i'd sure like an answer to this reboot question.  we reboot
> our mpe systems (normally) every week.  on the small boxes,
> it's not such a big deal, but on our 995, you're looking at
> a good half-hour.  and this is on a system with an ever
> shrinking maintenance window <sigh>            - d

I don't think we've ever had a policy of rebooting our 3000 on any sort of
regular basis.  The need to reboot to get things right is, I would think, an
evidence of a problem in the OS--one which I think MPE has long since solved.
However, we are a small shop with one little 947, and if such a problem exists,
it is much less likely to be manifest here.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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