It is rumored that on or about 2002-04-13 7:40 AM -0700, Chris 
Hufford wrote as follows:

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>However, on a different G4 I was running only Filemaker Server. That machine
>never crashed - in 9 months it was only restarted about 4 times. About a
>month ago, I installed SIMS on it to be a backup to our main SIMS. Now that
>G4 crashes every couple of weeks. As far as I can tell, the only change on
>that previously stable machine is that SIMS now runs on it also.
>
>Has anyone had a problem like this? Is there a newer development version of
>SIMS that might help? Thanks for the help.

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Chris

I would not rush to blame SIMS itself. I have a server running FMPro, 
WebSTAR, SIMS (formerly EIMS), ListSTAR, and Vicomsoft Internet 
Gateway. It seems to crash (or at least WebSTAR crashes) about every 
10 days. It did this *even before* I installed SIMS. It did it when 
it ran on different hardware under OS 8.6. It did it running 
different versions of ListSTAR and WebSTAR.

My theories boil down to:

1) Unidentifed memory leak somewhere.
2) Cosmic rays changing a 1 to a 0 somewhere.
3) Hardware and software "just get tired" after a while.
4) A seldom used area of RAM or hard drive space has marginal 
performance, gets used, and causes the crash.
5) Problem with some Microsoft stuff (don't have any, but everyone 
else blames them!).

In practical terms, it probably is not worth the effort to track this 
down if it can be avoided by rebooting once a week. Just reboot!

Glad to hear I am not the only person afflicted by these gremlins.

-- 
Neil

Neil Herber, RGD
Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/
Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1
Tel: (613) 829-4668


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