Item Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] was Y2K Early Warning System? now reboot frequency
Tom Hula writes:

> Actually, there was once a very practical reason to schedule a
> semi-regular reboot, besides it being beneficial to reload the operating
> system occasionally.  Someone may need to help me on this one.  Either
> the job numbers or the spool file numbers (can't remember which) only
> went up to some fixed value and if it then tried to assign the next
> number, system failure.

The only thing I remember along this line was the maximum fixed number
of extents (?) on the 7925 drives.  I think 1,024 was the magic
number, and hitting this caused a system failure.

--Glenn