on Sun, Sep 26, 2003 uilleann may have said:

>> For some reason, when I walk away from the Mac (which is my home 
>> machine,
>> thus is used for both server and interactive tasks at once, and is 
>> running a
>> lot of apps all the time), it will occasionally go unresponsive. This 
>> used
>> to be a rare occurrence, but in 4d 9h uptime now, it has done it 
>> twice, and
>> I had a third occurrence not that long ago, so it seems to be 
>> increasing.

Running servers and client applications at the same time is _never_ a
good idea, no matter what OS or hardware you are on. Not only does doing
so impact memory (due to fragmentation, VM use, etc.) and hard drive
speed (loading apps, opening/saving docs, VM usage, etc) but Applications
in general (as opposed to server software in general) is bug prone and
tend to have memory leaks, memory overwrites and other system/application
instability issues.

on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 LuKreme may have said:

>It sounds like OS <X to me, and I would say that OS 8-9 is not suited 
>to be a server running a lot of services.  Sure, running SIMS on it 
>works great, but in my experience simply running SIMS and NetPreszenz 
>made the machine far less stable.  Netpresenz by itself was fine as 
>well.

I have run OS 8.6 and 9.2 with dns, email, mailing list, web, ftp,
contact, collaboration, and other services all running together with
uptimes of 6+ months. That said, NetPresenz was not one of the programs I
could rely on with any other server running on the same machine.

NOTE: if you are running 9.1 (I saw that after I put out this reply), you
need to update to 9.2, 9.1 had a lot of issues, including the tendency to
go deaf.

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