Re: UNS: who/what uses my CPU?

2007-02-28 Thread Steffan Davies
Mitja Podreka wrote: Hello I've searched the internet but I couldn't find the answer. KDE's system guard shows that something is using almost 100% of CPU, but it doesn't want to tell me who. If I run top I get this: [snip top output] Can someone tell me what /95.3% wa/ in Cpu(s) line

Re: UNS: IMAP Mail server question

2007-02-28 Thread Steffan Davies
Kelly wrote: Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go with. I have no experience with Courier, but I use Dovecot on Maildirs here with OpenLDAP for auth, talking to Squirrelmail and assorted

Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Steffan Davies
Hi - I'm currently managing a small fleet of Stable and Testing systems for my employer, which live at Servermatrix. On trying to order some new machines, I learn that Debian is no longer supported by them for new installs, due apparently to incompatibilities with newer hardware. They are

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Steffan Davies
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: technical details, but this covers at least a dual-core Opteron with an LSI53C1030 SCSI controller (I have dmesg from Red Hat on this machine if anyone's interested) as well as Core 2 Duo machines. My guess is that the server has stuff that Sarge (current stable)

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Steffan Davies
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: How beefy are your requirements? Have you considered getting a Xen domU instance somewhere? Cheaper and performance is good. Of course, if you need tons of fast disk I/O and dedicated CPU, that may not be enough. At least two of the machines in question would be

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Steffan Davies
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If RAM is the biggest concern, then Xen might be the way to go. The reason is that while Xen doesn't guarantee CPU (unless you are on a multi-CPU machine and you associate the particular domU and no others to a particular CPU), and doesn't guarantee disk I/O, it *does*

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Steffan Davies
Tyler MacDonald wrote: I'm running yi.org with iweb.ca, they're good, and cheap. They have special deals on sometimes too, so keep an eye on the last minute section of their dedicated webpage. I ended up getting a dedicated system with 300GB harddrive, 2GB ram, 3GHz CPU, and