Admin Window anomaly

[stanley]

As I posted yesterday, our FM Server 5.5 (PPC, OS 8.6) is showing strange information in the Administration window, namely that some guests are showing connect times of 45 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, even though I know definitely the longest they could be connected is about 5 days (due to a server disconnect for maintenance.)

This anomaly first appeared yesterday. Today the information is still the same for those 4 machines (although Idle Time updates correctly across the board.) As I wrote yesterday, the server has been up (without a reboot) for around 200 days now. I am loathe to reboot, as I'd like to see what happens. Can it be possible that nobody has seen this kind of quirk before?

Up till now we've had no problems with the server whatsoever.

Thanks

Stanley

[LiveOak]

While acting as server administrators for out clients we usually don't take the position that "we like to see what happens"! I would recommend restarting Mac FM Server machines once per day. We also like ram disk (using RAMBunctious) and Peek-a-Boo for foreground/background processor time management on Mac servers.

I'm not sure if a system clock change could create this effect.

-bd

[Kurt Knippel]

I am not sure that a daily restart is NECESSARY, but it certainly will clear out crud that builds up in memory and that is likely what is causing this problem.

Restarting will not hurt anything, and if it solves the problem then you know to reboot every so often.

[Ted S]

I have seen this exact problem before on v3.0. We don't have to bounce the entire box just restarting the FMServer service fixes it. However, I agree with the others; we do an automated restart of the entire server every week to keep things humming.

-Ted

[stanley]

Thanks for all the input. I think it probably is just garbage due to the system being on for such a long time.

-Stanley