Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> I'll not go into ms vs unix other than to say unix is the choice of
> free men.
<g> I've worked with Linux and I currently maintain a Solaris server, so I'm not
just an NT freak. I just see so many office situations where the techie is
someone who knows a little more than Word and all they need is login security, a
place for office files and printer sharing. The learning curve to unix is often
just way too much for them to even consider and NT fits better with their Win95
workstations.
> What is interesting is what is required to "properly setup NT". I
> use it on my desktop and it crashes at least once per day. Perhaps
> because I bought an OEM version at a computer show? Perhaps because I
> am using a Cyrix chip? Is my memory bad? Of course it crashes after
> heavy use with at least 10-20 programs running. Why not just close
> down programs? Why crash?
> If I want to run NT should I only use intel hardware? Should I be
> sure to only run approved software for NT?
The famous "blue screen of death" is almost always hardware related. The worst
culprit is a network card that isn't supported. If you are setting up an NT
server, go through the various components and make sure they are on the HCL
and/or you get the NT drivers from the manufacturer.
Now, if by crashing you mean that a particular program freezes when running
several tasks at once, check your free disk space. You should try to keep about
200 MB on whatever drive NT lives on. If you can, move most of your cache to
another partition or drive. I would also recommend going NTFS as you'll save
space, and it offers security.
That said, servers being run as servers will be more stable than servers being
run as workstations. My servers almost never go down. My main workstation is
running NT server, DHCP server, backup domain controller, webserver and
ftpserver (latter two just for testing purposes). Memory intensive applications
limit what else I can do on it (ex. running HitListPro on a 79MB log file makes
it crawl) I have occasionally had a 'application not responding' on it, but
that's it.
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