At the risk of replying endlessly to myself, the Media Server was humming along nicely so I decided to stress test it. I set up five five client streams -- to 3 LAN, 2 WAN hosts, and after an hour or so it crashed out.
I'm unsure of what you mean when you say "that's an OS issue". The server is a very plain, vanilla Server. Dual P3, Supermicro P6DBE, 1GB ECC PC-100, SCSI RAID 1, ATA RAID 5, Win2K Server SP4. It has no expansion beyond stock except for the RAID cards. It always stays up for weeks or months (depending on when MS issue a critical patch that requires reboot).
It has very little software beyond standrd Win2K Server install:
IIS 5
Symantec Enterprise Antivirus
Media Center 9.0.180
Windows Media Producer
So what you're saying is the Media Server is not supported on Windows Server 2000? What about Windows Server 2003? When you say "We're not dealing with the number of CPUs", what about the pseudo-multi CPU hyperthreading on newer P4s? With my configuration I seem be getting some runaway memory thread/locking issues with multi CPUs and Media Server 9.0.180.
I upgraded from Media Jukebox 8 - do you think it would help if I do a clean install, clear out any DLL cruft, and re-initialise the library?
Thanks,
Mike