RE: uptime

> With windows you can force the memory back to the system - not sure why it
> doesn't do this automatically as Linux appears to do.
>
> There's a few tools that I have used for this *however* I'm not sure it
> would work in the scenario you are describing.

Interesting! I may have to check those out! This particular system is constrained to 32-bit until we can upgrade, which requires a rewrite of our ETL scripts. I've read that 64-bit versions of Winders still suffers from the same PTE issues, but that it's not noticeable due to the vast increase in pool size for 64-bit.

> Regarding apps, I thought that is what we were talking about :)

Any app can have leaky code (except the ones *I* write, of course), so I was looking at this in how the OS can deal with it. If those tools can help, that could go a long way in keeping our apps available until upgrade.

Thanks Chris!

Rich

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