> Running servers and client applications at the same time is _never_ a > good idea...
Under classic Mac OS, this is true, and I know that, but this is my one modern machine in my bedroom at home - nothing else here to make into a server except a 486 (which has my DOS games on) or an Archimedes 440/1 that's horribly unstable. > 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)... It has taken rather longer than usual for someone to state the painfully obvious... I thought I was doing well up to this point... (then again, so did someone else it seems) Actually, I don't think my regular apps have much impact on the machine when I'm not using them (don't forget static memory allocation in 9) except that MacASP gets paged out because it's not in enough use - that's really because I just don't have enough RAM (that said, 9.1 makes inefficient use of RAM) > 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. You worry me - if you truly believe what you said, you must be running a really flaky operating system. Even when the GUI system on my work Windows 2000 machine (again, combined server/interactive, as I did work on it as localhost) completely fell to bits (the screen looked like being on crack and LSD combined), Apache was still working normally when I connected to it from another machine. Maybe you're just used to the general botched job Apple made of Mac OS X. Hell, even when apps on this go weird, they don't usually break my server software. > 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. Well, I did try, but 9.2.x is unsupported on a StarMax 4000/200, and I've not even managed to get the OS9forever patches to work either - none of them are compatible with the copies of 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 I have. I may need to re-download 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 to see if Apple changed them and *then* see if they will patch. That said, I run International English 9.1, and there is no patcher for 9.2.1 for that anyhow. On top of the risk of more crashes relating to running a patched OS. On top of that, Robert Brenstein said that Open Transport in 9.2.2 has a leak anyhow, and to stick to 9.1's Open Transport (when I suggested just installing OT 2.7.9 on this to get around some other problem with Outlook Express and SIMS conflicting). And define "deaf"? What exactly is the Mac doing - that's all I want to know? Is some application entering into a blocking Open Transport call? Why would that only happen if I stop using the Mac? Why would moving the mouse do anything? Will installing OT 2.7.9 fix it? Or something else? Bear in mind that this "deafness" problem typically only happened once every month or two - something very specific is triggering it that can be stopped. And its frequency is increasing now, so something is changing - VM issues from running more and more concurrent apps? ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
