On Friday 07 April 2006 20:11, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Well, top on Eskimo shows something along these lines: > > > > <<< > > Mem: 321776k total, 306432k used, 15344k free, 23304k buffers > > Swap: 499688k total, 94528k used, 405160k free, 110188k cached > > > > Which means we're close to occupying all the RAM. Sometimes it's even > > only 2000K of RAM left. > > I've restarted some services at 19:00, that why we have so "much" free RAM. >
I see. > > If we want the system to perform well, we need to make sure it has enough > > RAM. Now, while 320K was enough when we got Eskimo, it's not a lot now. > > Since then, programs have expanded in size, (from RedHat 6.2 to Debian > > Woody to Debian Sarge which we are using now), and we also run more stuff > > (MediaWiki, Sympa, etc.). If we wish to upgrade to Postfix (which I do, > > at least), then we may need even more RAM. > > Can we export the mailing list to beak using a different DNS mx recored > ? Meaning beak will handle all of @iglu.org.il mail. This will involve moving the DNS mx record, moving the qmail domain, and setting up Sympa on beak. In my opinion, it would be too much trouble for what it is worth, especially considering the fact that upgrading the memory would be: 1. Something we'll need to do anyhow. 2. Easier. 3. Cheper - if you take the man-hours into account. > > > I don't suppose upgrading Eskimo's memory will cost too much and it > > certainly would save us a lot of frustration in the future. I am willing > > to finance part of this cost (or all of it should the need arise) from my > > own pocket. > > I think Hamakor can (and should) help, like in the HD upgrade. Though we > need to check which memory we have there - I'm not sure it will be that > easy to upgrade (don't forget eskimo isn't a normal PC). > Eskimo is: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant800/index4.html What isn't normal about Eskimo? > > So what do you say? > > Go for it. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
