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RE: [PLUG] microsoft lost
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jeff Dean wrote:
:lengthy NTFS repair/reboot cycle, then wait for Domino to repair the
:databases as well. We'd often find ourselves down for an hour or so during
:production hours, making us very unpopular with the users, and making
:NT/Domino unpopular with us! We did all the service packs and recommended
I have heard of more then one person complain about large NT/domino
servers and will agree with you here. If I remember correctly it has to
do with a memory leak.
:With NT, we dropped back to the old "reboot it before it bellies up again"
:routine, using a weekly planned boot cycle. When we implemented a Domino
:cluster we no longer had to come into work at 7:00AM because the Notes
:clients would fail over to the still-running cluster partner.
With 500+ users it is a good idea to cluster/Load Balance with Domino, if
I remember where I got that info I would post the documentation.
:
:I left that job before switching to Solaris as the favored Domino platform.
Sun Microsystems recomended domino in quite a few seminars I have been too
of theirs.
:
:Let's hope W2k is better. Regardless, if I were deploying a Domino server
:now, I'd go with Linux unless there's experience in the community that says
:not to do so.
I would do the same thing if I was going with Domino too, either that or a
Sun solution. Now with Solaris 8 being almost given away by Sun, it is not
a bad option for some applications. What server to use depends on what
you want to do.
--
-Rune
Operating-system software is the program that orchestrates all the basic
functions of a computer.
-- The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, September 15, 1987, page 40
Windows 2000 can be called a parasite because it keeps growing, consuming
its host's resources and spreading across networks
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