Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 27 Mar: > > Sympa is the only new addition on the server, right ? > > I think so, yes. > > > Can you move the lists to beak ? It takes ~20% of memory. > > The lists reside at the iglu.org.il and linux.org.il domains which are hosted > at Eskimo. Moving them to beak would imply moving the domains along with > them, as well as the contents of the Sympa database. Assuming this is indeed > the problem, I believe it would be much less headache to just buy more RAM > for Eskimo, assuming it is indeed needed.
Good luck finding that specific antique flavor of RAM. you may discover it will cost you an arm and a leg. if I may suggest, eskimo has run its course. the CPU and RAM have been stretched to the limits of what this hardware can do at a sane cost, while over the last 5 years (has it really been that long?) we've been loading it with fatter kernels and apps, and now dumping the paper-thin qmail for a much fatter postfix, and apparently Sympa likes to run as a resident daemon (why on earth?!) and take up quite a few unswappable pages of precious RAM. moving back to Qmail makes no sense anymore, I say consolidate the mail on one server, free up the old one to do what it can still do best, and that's high-volume file serving. move interactive web content off of it, have as few interpreters as possible run on it (that means anything requiring mod_php, mod_perl, mod_python, perl- and python-based daemons) and just let it serve files. At our day and age (and bandwidth demands) it no longer makes sense to load it with any other tasks, and it makes absolutely no sense at all to go out to find the weird RAM this machine requires, it will cost an arm and a leg. My two eurocents... -- Silver screen siren Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/
