1 Apr
2001
1 Apr
'01
5:56 a.m.
From: M.Buckett <M.Buckett(a)dcs.hull.ac.uk>
You suspect right. Most cases where WIN9x has to reboot to keep
perfomance always seem to track back to a driver or app that never
"leaks" memory. More ram or more cpu cannot help that much.
Allison
But how many
times per hour did you have to reboot it?
About once every 2 weeks, but by that time the upload speed had dropped
considerably. You could tell how long it would be before the next reboot
by the amount of HD activity. Just before failing the HD would be going
non-stop, I suspect a few memory leaks.... There was talk of buying a timer plug to cut the power once a day for 15 minutes
so it never
got too bad. Mind you you had to do all the configuration before you
started capturing images as the computer would start to fail to respond
to keyboard events once the webcam software had started.
Matthew Buckett