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From: [e-mail] (Richard Brett Frankenberger)
Subject: Re: Downing the server
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:27:02 GMT
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I'm surprised no one has brought up the performance issue ... a 3.11 server
automatically tunes itself as it runs.  If you down it every weekend, then
every Monday, you will have a period of less-than-optimum tuning while the
server re-tunes itself from the default values.

If you elect to down the server nightly or weekly, then I suggest that you find
out what some of the optimum settings for the various parameters are and
SET then in your AUTOEXEC.NCF so the server will not have to re-tune
itself everytime it comes up (personally, I run each server for about a
month or so and then see where most of the parameters end up, and then do some
calculations on my own, and set the parameters to the values I find to be
optimum initially, and then set the limits of those parameters to the values
I determined to be optimum, so the server can't increase them due to a burst
in traffic).

My personaly opinion about downing the server is never do it (except when needed
to install additional hardware, etc., of course), but there are definitely two
sides to this issue, and neither side is probably "correct."

     - Brett