Hi Garrison, Have you thought about monitoring the box to learn more of what it is doing?
munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no) is a nice tool for that, have a look. It will collect data on what the system is doing and display it in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs. I have found it very usefull for identifying bottlenecks and preventing problems. One word of warning (that might not apply in your case), if you have a bunch of nodes (machines reporting) then the machine collecting the data will show a load increase due to that. With just a few machines reporting it is not an issue. I run munin at work and at home. To lighten the load on the data collection machine at home I run it with webfsd as the web server. If I recal, I have even run it without a web server running and just looked at the pages it generates localy with a browser. That may be a faulty memory though. Don't forget to add munin-node to the data collection machine as well, then you can see the effect running munin is having on it. Then once you have the data, let us know what you find out. Hope this helps, -Greg -- Greg Priest-Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
