Search Again: Re: coincidence? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 Time: 12:24:07 pm Hello Nick, I was hoping someone else would be able to shed some light on this. Oh well. >Amongst others, we have a 5400 with 72MB running QuickDNS, MacRadius >and SIMS (being supported by MacOS 9.0, Timbuktu and MacCoach) for >over 2 years. Having 72MB, I allowed QuickDNS (2.2.1) 10MB to cache >its stuff, and everything runs hunkydory (translates to OK) most of >the time except for: > >- the occasional freeze when Timbuktu shows the menu bar clock >seconds stopped for a minute or so and then off it goes again, and That could just be Timbuktu. It does that from time to time, at least in my experience - Timbuktu stops updating some or all of the screen, then shows all the updates that it should have been showing, in rapid succession. Is this what you're seeing? >- every two weeks or so MacCoach restarts the system due to a >nothing happening for 5 minutes (ie a long freeze) I don't have any experience with MacCoach. How does it work? >I "Timbuktu" to the server 2 or 3 times a day to administer email, >dns and radius and I noticed a couple of days ago that the QuickDNS' >free memory was getting down to well under 1MB and thought to myself >"oh, its due for a restart". And sure enough, the 36 hours later, >that is what happened. > >Has anyone else had this coincidence? The free memory reading should go down somewhat below 1 MB, then pop back up to about 1 MB as less-used cache entries are cleared from the cache to make room for new entries. >Have I given QuickDNS too much rope and memory management is getting >knotted when free memory gets to zero? You've given it 10 MB. That should pose no problem. Some people have given it quite a bit more, with no problem. What type of Mac is this? >Should I simply restart every week at a preset time, just to be safe? Depending on what's running on the server, that may not be a bad solution. >Upgrade MacOS to 9.0.4? 9.0.4 is a good thing. We haven't seen any problems related to upgrading to it (so long as QuickDNS is running on a machine with only one IP address), and it seems a bit faster and more stable. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 15, 2000 at 4:05:25 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 12:24:07 pm Re: coincidence? by Jona Tallieu (T & T n.v.) on Jun 16, 2000 at 12:38:09 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 1:07:55 pm Re: coincidence? by Peter Lalor on Jun 16, 2000 at 1:14:37 pm Re: coincidence? by Jona Tallieu (T & T n.v.) on Jun 16, 2000 at 1:57:10 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 2:14:52 pm Re: coincidence? by Jona Tallieu (T & T n.v.) on Jun 16, 2000 at 2:42:22 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 3:05:42 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 16, 2000 at 5:41:51 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 16, 2000 at 5:43:41 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 5:58:54 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 16, 2000 at 6:46:42 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 6:56:39 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 16, 2000 at 7:10:03 pm Re: coincidence? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 16, 2000 at 8:11:55 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jun 16, 2000 at 9:23:26 pm Re: coincidence? by Peter Lalor on Jun 18, 2000 at 9:43:37 am Re: coincidence? by Webmaster on Jun 19, 2000 at 8:16:57 am Re: coincidence? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 19, 2000 at 12:27:46 pm Re: coincidence? by Nick Quinn on Jul 3, 2000 at 4:23:30 am