Hello AOLserver folks,
The current trend in service calls to the AOLserver Support team concerns
systems that have been crashing for mysterious reasons unrelated to the
release of the server. The common factors to all of these calls is that the
machines had been changed to run 5 or more nsd processes per machine rather
than just one or two. It's important to consider that AOLserver will
aggressively use the resources available to it and running multiple nsd
processes carelessly will affect the performance of your machine. This is
due to resource limits in the operating system. Let's be smart about this
and if the occasion comes around where you want to run multiple nsd's per
machine, please closely watch your system parameters. Naturally, AOLserver
will always effectively use *all* the processors on a multiprocessor
machine, and starting up more than one nsd process should be considered with
great care, study, and operational vigilence--something that is more
detrimental than the predicted benefits might be. Assuming that "everything
was okay until now" does not count! Especially since there has been some
poor timing: increased load as a result of the Nimba worm, the increase of
nsd processes per machine, and after-effects of current world events at the
Pentagon and the Twin Towers.
Thank you very much, and thanks for reading.
Kris
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Kriston Rehberg
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AOL Technology Development
