Hmmm. If he's doing a lot of threaded ftp sessions, then you could be
running out of filehandles. Try doing:
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
which should return 3 numbers on a line. If the leftmost number is close
to the rightmost number (by about 10), then you are likely running out
of
file handles. You can resolve this by:
echo 8192 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
Use some number larger than 8192 if you are getting really swamped.
Another possiblity is that you have a marginal ethernet board and/or
driver.
Either get another board or update your driver. Unfortunately, a lot of
the
cheaper high-speed boards you find at places like Staples, CompUSA, ...
either don't match the drivers or just can't stand up to high
throughput.
Either way: Good Luck! These problems are really tough to chase down,
and
you don't know if you fixed it until the load gets back up!
Kurth Bemis wrote:
> I'm sure you all remember my problems with my debian 2.1 server rebooting
> all the time for no reason. well i just noticed this. i had a friend at
> home.com upload me some mp3's. he said that he was going away for a few
> days and that he would upload them while he was gone. anyway! he is still
> gone and the server's been up for almost 7 days now. that's the longest it
> will have been up ever. i'm thinking that it may have something to do with
> in.ftpd. any thoughts?
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