Millennium freeze (yet another) hypothesis

["Woodford, Mark" <mwoodfor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am posting this to the list to offer (yet another) hypothesis to the
"Millennium freeze" problem.

We are currently running Release 2000, Update C and are looking to implement
Millennium Circ at the winter break (Jan '01).

My curiosity has been piqued for 2 reasons:

1.) We are starting to have "freeze" problems with folks using Windows (9x)
and AnzioWin.

2.) I (vaguely) remember scripting running by the screen during the Update C
load that said something to the effect of "synching all Millennium
applications, all applications synched."

My suspicions are that (since) all the server based apps are written for
Millennium clients that we might be on the "bleeding edge" of something
here.... we are only having these ("freeze") problems at PCs interacting
with the PAC, the same functions work well with terminals in the same room,
using the same wiring plant... or on systems using a Linux OS and AnzioWin
(under VM).

The common thread seems to be that any server based application interacting
with a machine OS that operates on a winsock stack/Java Runtime Environment
has periodic and unpredictable problems.

Although we in the library have a freshly certified CAT5 cable plant (August
2000), I suspect that there may be more wrong with our PCs/Campus LAN than
with our Innopac.  

The few sites that are running NT rather than Win2000 or Win 9x on your
Millennium PCs seem to be having little or no problems.  Was NT the OS you
were using when you migrated to Millennium? If not how or why did you chose
NT over the other popular operating systems? I was wondering if the sites
running Windows NT had attempted to run on any of the other operating
systems, or simply decided to go/stay NT due to the "freeze" issues?

Your replies are welcome off list.

Mark Woodford 
Head of Library Systems 
Wallace E. Mason Library 
Keene State College 
Keene, NH 03435-3201 
(603) 358-2716
mwoodfor@xxxxxxxxxx


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