[Am-info] Amazing......

[Mike Stephen]

But there is trouble with Warp as a server... I have a number of Warp Server machines running, and 
because Windows 2000  has a major bug with Warp Server (I do not know if the same problem is 
with Windows XP).  Windows 2000 will continually suck up resources from the Warp Server until it 
barfs.  It does not return resources after a logoff.  You can delay the server barfing by upping the 
number of users to a few hundred more than you need, but this only delays the inevitable reboot 
required to set things straight again.  NT was without this "feature", as well as the dos based (Win 
95, 98, ME) Windows stuff. 

Seems Microsoft knows about the problem but has no solution. IBM also knows of the problem and 
possibly could solve it with a Windows 2000 client logon, but I have not seen such a thing from IBM, 
and frankly I give up on IBM doing anything for Warp.  This is reminiscent of the "Dos isn't done till 
Lotus won't run".  Or just as frustrating is the obscure warning message you get when using a 
Windows product on a machine with OS/2 installed. where Microsoft suggests you reformat all your 
partitions to Windows only. So with this bug Microsoft has made sure all the remaining Warp 
servers will be soon replaced if they will not run with Windows 2000 clients.

Last week I converted one server to Windows, next week I will probably convert another to Linux.  
Warp at the server level was the last niche.  Now the end is near...  soon I will have no more 
professionally maintained Warp servers.....

Neither the Windows server or the Linux server is as robust as the Warp server or as able, but with 
this last bug in Windows 2000 machines, I am moving away.....

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:30:41 -0500 (EST), Erick Andrews wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:17:04 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>>"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
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>>> The following is from an e-list here. It's beyond my comprehension that
>>> an Admin. would consider exceptable for a server to crash once every
>>> day or 2 days!!!!!!! The sucker shouldn't crash at all for months, and
>>> it wouldn't if he had enough gray matter to run Linux instead of W2K!!!!
>>
>>Or OS/2 or eCS...
>>
>>John
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>
>Yep.  And Mac and FreeBSD, too, although I'd first choose Warp and eCS.
>
>-- 
>Erick Andrews
>
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