b) Back up your system. (You should probably keep the last few
backups on hand.) Ideally, no one else should be using the
system at the time.
- c) Stop and restart the postmaster. The software currently
- suffers from memory leaks. This means that as more commands
- are processed, the program will allocate, then forget about,
- more and more memory. Eventually your computer will run
- low on memory and start to swap excessively. This problem
- will probably be gone in the next release.
Ideally, the above tasks should be done by a shell script that is
run nightly or weekly by cron. Look at the man page for crontab