Routine Maintenance
Just curiosity, but does anyone know what goes on during the two hour (or more) periods of routine maintenance. They are becoming increasingly frequent of late.
Mac OS X (10.6.8), With La Cie 500GB external HD
Just curiosity, but does anyone know what goes on during the two hour (or more) periods of routine maintenance. They are becoming increasingly frequent of late.
Mac OS X (10.6.8), With La Cie 500GB external HD
I do not know for sure, but more than likely removing posts, updating things, etc.
seventy one (more or less, lol)--
Usually, they are added new forums, making improvements (hopefully) in the performace of the boards here.
Removing posts are done on the fly all the time. Theyre excellent at getting rid of really nasty posts, often in minutes.
Like, sometime in the morning after maintenance, I really hope to be able to suddenly be able to really go to the last post in a thread in ONE click. They tell me the day is coming. ๐
Actually it's Scheduled Maintenance not Routine Maintenance, a small but important difference.
There are two at least three areas that would require taking the software off-line, one is to apply patches for bug fixes or enhancements the second would be to do maintenance on the database and the thrid woul be to bring more hardware on-line.
There has been a huge surge of users of Apple Support Communities recently and I'm sure this increase has pushed both the software and the hardware running ASC to its limits. So the recent run of Scheduled Maintenance for the site is to be expected.
regards
Hello ~Bee,
"More or Less".
MORE, ~Bee, more, unfortunately, but good to hear from you. I do wish they'd say what they are improving, though. All this cloak and dagger stuff!
And Frank; thank you, too. There has been a huge surge in Apple's bank balance, I read. I've never understood why they have to do this first thing in the morning and not in the middle of the night. 7 to 9 am in the UK is unreasonable.
seventy one wrote:
I've never understood why they have to do this first thing in the morning and not in the middle of the night. 7 to 9 am in the UK is unreasonable.
Ah, but when it's night time in Italy it's Wednesday over here.
Yes; I'd almost come round to recognising the time zone relationship but it's 2012. With the ability to create such complex computer programs, surely they could do the maintenance in time zone blocks and overlap where necessary.
Frank Caggiano wrote:
Actually it's Scheduled Maintenance not Routine Maintenance, a small but important difference.
Which is?
In general:
Routine Maintenance would be something you do on a regular basis whether there's an actual problem or not.
Scheduled Maintenance is dealing with an issue which isn't serious, so you can plan when to do it.
Unscheduled Maintenance is dealing with an issue which is serious and needs dealing with asap.
Emergency Maintenance is 'help - it's broken...'
Apple may have its own definitions.
HI "71"
I've never understood why they have to do this first thing in the morning and not in the middle of the night. 7 to 9 am in the UK is unreasonable.
Look at the bright side...when it is morning here, it is tea time - approaching cocktail time - in the UK. ๐
Barry
Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
Routine Maintenance would be something you do on a regular basis whether there's an actual problem or not.
Scheduled Maintenance is dealing with an issue which isn't serious, so you can plan when to do it.
So Routine Maintenance is scheduled and Scheduled Maintenance isn't but is added to the schedule. ๐
Michael, Roger and Barry,
(Sounds like a solicitors). I'm not sure I should have raised this question ... but we all seem to be getting some fun out of it. ๐๐๐
And Barry, you sound very civilised. Cocktails indeed.
Hi "71"
I have an old friend in Lancashire who says that, "for a colonial, I am well traveled and fairly civilized (or civilised)." ๐๐ My response is that his English is odd, but understandable ๐ฟ LOL.
Barry
By odd, you mean the spelling? All that talk about cocktails will upset the natives, don't you know. There is a recession on.
Thanks for the smile. ๐
Routine Maintenance