My experience suggests that a Windows server will need to be rebooted about once a month to keep it stable. It is possible to minimize this if you check the running processes, and try restarting the service(s) that is/are eating up the resources. For instance, one of the servers I manage for a customer routinely uses more than 600Meg of RAM, running IIS, Cold Fusion, and SQL Server. When first started, it only needs approx 350 meg. Over a month the memory usage builds up, and I typically need to reboot, or at least stop the SQL services (it's claiming as much free space as possible). Part of that IS the application (multiple users can execute large queries simultaneously), but SQL Server doesn't do a great job of releasing the memory when it's through with it... Remedy? Reboot every month or so.... normally about the same time any security patches are installed - they usually force a reboot.
So, to sum it up, I think you're likely seeing routine stuff with Windows, but it might be worth digging a bit to see what's eating up the memory and processing time.... (Task Manager can give you a good hint...) HTH. Shawn On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:24, Travis Rousseau wrote: > Ok I'm crazy about Linux but i figured that i should get some windows > experience so I setup a win 2000 server to play around with. The thing > is with Linux I never reboot unless I'm upgrading my kernel or must move > the computer but now this windows computer has only been on about 20 > days and has slowed down _big_ time! It's just a base install with the > sound card disabled, no extra programs or fancy stuff. > > The computer that has windows on is a 1Ghz computer and has had Linux on > many times before and Linux was never slow (even after 60 days once) the > Linux computer beside the windows computer has been on for 21 days > with many servers (Espessialy samba) and programs always running and is > still as fast as the day it was turned on. > > Does windows acctualy need rebooting every few weeks? > > Travis R. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
