[Xitami] Rotate Logs SOLVED

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 08:49 AM 6/14/2002 -0700, Warren 'Llama' Ernst writeth:
>I run Xitami on a pitifull Win98 box (P166, 96 megs ram, 2 gig HD), and I
>reboot it every 75 days "just to make sure." If you're running NT, 2000, or
>XP, I'd say rebooting every day is a little bit of overkill.

It actually hurts the machine to reboot it every day when running any
Windows OS.  The reason is due to registry keys being created and deleted
every time the OS loads.  The problem is that the registry functions never
truly delete keys (they just clear a bit).  So, every time you boot up, the
machine gets progressively slower because it has to look through that many
extra registry keys (whatever the number is).

Note that the machine itself is not hurt, just the amount of extra time
that is spent skipping dead spaces in the registry hunting for keys.  There
are registry optimization programs out there, but I only used one once and
had to reinstall Windows shortly thereafter.  My solution after that was to
just leave the machine on.

Hope this helps!


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
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