Server Maintenance 3/23/07

[rich]

One of the streaming servers will be going down for maintenance (Windows updates--you know how that goes) sometime today, Friday, 3/23/07.

I will try not to do it during an active foaling.

The web site and message board will not be affected.

Approximately half the cams will go off line for 5 minutes or less.

[rich]

OK we're all set. I didn't have to restart the whole server over again, but I DID have to restart the media server program. It has a little problem called a "memory leak." What this means is that over time, it eats up more and more RAM until it uses up all the memory in the computer. When that happens, the computer gets slow(jerky cams) or crashes completely. The cure is to just restart the program from time to time. The effect is the cams all go down at once for a few seconds.