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by robert_hanson 1 view

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I am seeking some advice from my fellow Administrators, How often should a Windows NT 4.0 Server be shutdown and rebooted in order to prevent memory leaks and to restart the services afresh???

Is there any white papers on the subject, if so do you have the link?

Let me know your thoughts, many thanks
Rob

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by nichomach

If you're worried about leaking apps, perfmon the private bytes for any processes outside your core services, and if you find a leaker, use the schedule service to schedule a batch job to stop and restart said service periodically, use your judgement as to how often you'd like that to be. There's a lot of guff talked about how "you have to restart an NT Server every X days" (let X be inversely proportionate to level of anti-NT feeling of admin), but it really shouldn't be necessary.

by rzan

Shut down that piece of crap NT server for good and fdisk the hard drive. Replace the OS with a real and stable network OS like Unix or Netware. That will be the end of your memory leak errors.

by robert_hanson

Thankyou for stating the obvious, as a CNE, I agree on some levels, but as MCSE, I have to disagree, I am seeking advice, not criticism of Bill's Products, we know what they are like, I need help with them!!!!

by nichomach

I gave a suggestion which would deal reasonably with leaky apps avoiding undue downtime on the server; if you don't like that, then make up whatever number you like, press the reset switch every 5 minutes, I should care?

by robert_hanson

Nichomach, my apologies, you advice was good, it was the unhelpful person who replied after you that my last comments were directed to. Your advice has been extremely useful, and has worked on 2 out of 3 Servers. Many thanks for your help.

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