Re: Recycling Informix

> Quick question. > > What is your view regarding recycling the instance. One of our production > servers has been up for 30 days. Performance does not appear to be > degrading. I say leave it up. Only because I don't have a good argument not > to. > > We have an Informix consultant on site who believes we should bounce every > week (good salesman), "because it is a good business practice" "a good gut > feeling". (Rudy, you know who I'm talking about?). It may very well be > that we should bounce weekly but I would like some hard evidence that this > is "... good business practice" The consultant obviously doesn't believe in high service level agreements. If you need to provide 2-nines availability in a 24x7 environment then 'bouncing the engine' monthly will use over 10% of your 'allowable' downtime. -- Paul Watson # WF Software # It said use Windows95 or better Tel ++44 1436 674729 # So I used Unix Fax ++44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com/informix #