Uptime Baby!

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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:33:57 -0700


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At 12:47 AM 10/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>sinck@ugive.com wrote:
>> 
>> \_ If I had a business machine, I would try and have a cron job reboot
>> \_ the sucker on sunday night, at a random time between 3 and 3:30 AM
>> \_ when the load averages have been under .0? (whatever, depends on the
>> \_ CPU, etc etc) for at least 15 minutes. Why random?
>> Well, how about just "Why?"
>
>If the machine is running unattended, it cleans out any processes that
>for one reason or another fail to terminate.
>
>Netscape is perhaps the most heinous example of this (though that
>wouldnt be running unattended...) .. a crashed netscape can persist
>even after you exit from X!
>
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