Re: [misterhouse-users] Misc Questions

[Tim <wa...@st...>]

98.

"David T. Chew" wrote:
> 
> Is this a 98 machine NT or 2000...??
> 
> Use AT and the Schedule Service with a SHUTDOWN.EXE from RESKIT to perform
> the reboot.
> or WINAT from RESKIT  for NT/2000
> 
> >   I would like to be able to kill off the remaining processes however
> >mh
> >   (after a 5 second sleep) has already exited.  Is it possible to kick
> >off
> >   a "detached" process before mh exits that will do something like:
> >       - sleep 120 seconds to give the graceful shutdown
> >         a chance to complete
> >       - find and kill hung processes hopefully allowing
> >         the reboot to continue
> 
> If you are running NT and schedule you might construct a script like this
> (syntax isn't correct)
> 
> echo "SHUTDOWN COMMAND" > c:\MH\....\house_cmd.txt
> c:\ntreskit\sleep 5
> c:\ntreskit\kill (process)
> c:\ntreskit\Shutdown /L /R /T:15 /Y /C
> 
> the /C switch in shutdown will forcible kill all processes or the kill
> command will let you individually kill each process
> I'm assuming that you are doing an autologin and restarting mh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mis...@li...
> [mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Sent: 22-Aug-2001 23:57
> To: mis...@li...
> Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] Misc Questions
> 
> I've got 128MB of memory.  Maybe I should go out and get 2 256MB sticks
> since they are so cheap right now.  I was running something called Ram
> Idle SE for a while which didn't seem to help the problem a lot.  I'll
> take a look at memturbo to see if it is doing something different.
> 
> Tim
> 
> "AO Internet Inc." wrote:
> >
> > If your main problem is memory running low, why not try a program like
> > memturbo?  It can be set to run at set intervals to recover memory.
> >
> > http://www.memturbo.com/
> >
> > Mickey
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mis...@li...
> > [mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Mark
> > Holm
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:04 PM
> > To: 'mis...@li...'
> > Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] Misc Questions
> >
> > Your other option is to use the shutdown utility supplied with the
> resource
> > kit. It can be invoked as either a graphical or command line utility.
> >
> >         markh
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Amaury Jacquot [mailto:sx...@es...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:07 PM
> > To: mis...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] Misc Questions
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 01:01, Tim wrote:
> > >
> > > 2) In lieu of getting my performance degradation problem solved,
> > >    I've decided to do a nightly (6am) automatic reboot.  To do this
> > >    as gracefully as possible, I am running:
> > >       run 'start c:\\windows\\system\\runonce.exe -q';
> > >
> > >    However, not all processes shutdown and therefore the shutdown
> > > portion
> > >    of the reboot never completes.
> > >
> > >    I would like to be able to kill off the remaining processes however
> > > mh
> > >    (after a 5 second sleep) has already exited.  Is it possible to
> > kick
> > > off
> > >    a "detached" process before mh exits that will do something like:
> > >       - sleep 120 seconds to give the graceful shutdown
> > >         a chance to complete
> > >       - find and kill hung processes hopefully allowing
> > >         the reboot to continue
> > >
> > >    Maybe there is just a better way someone knows of.
> > >
> >
> > Check Microsoft's Knowledgebase about rundll32 and exitwindows.
> > That's the way to do it.
> > Another solution, of course, is to completely do away with windows and
> > run some form of Unix (Of course, Linux comes to mind here...), in which
> > case, only the MisterHouse task would have to be killed/restarted.
> > BTW: recently, perl 5.6.1 came out, which may correct the memory leaking
> > situation...
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Amaury
> >
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