Slates wrote:
> and I'll take a look at that while Im at it, although the box runs with
> heaps of spare CPU and memory, until that is SB takes all the CPU when
> it has a fit! - although I would assume, with it being a pretty standard
> Ubuntu setup, others would have complained but still worth a try.
You can flag a service not to automatically run at boot with a simple
call to:
# sysv-rc-conf 'servicename' off
I'd try first disabling all those vbox services, any audio services &
saned and see how things run then.
Slates wrote:
> ..recently my hard disk failed (so yes I have SMART and fsk checked the
> new disk (100%OK)) , so I ended up doing another fresh install of Ubuntu
> and SB on the new disk. You know, thinking about it, I wonder if there's
> something about the hardware SB doesnt like - but surely dual core and
> 4GB memory wouldnt worry it? Hmmmm.
OK, that shoots down my theory that this was a bad-sector hard-disk
problem.
In terms of SBS liking or not liking the hardware, I think it's more
likely that some other process is occasionally fiddling with problematic
hardware and somehow blocking SBS. As far as I know, the only system
resources SBS consumes are networking, cpu and disk.
For my own servers, these are the simple rules I follow:
- Disable all unneeded hardware in BIOS (CPU virtualization support,
2ndary NIC, serial ports, audio hardware, etc.)
- Run the server headless, with no gui. (Not running a gui saves you
loads of CPU cycles.)
- Only run services that are mission critical (e.g. samba, sbs,
minidlna, lighttpd, rsync for me plus a few hardware monitoring
services.)
- Only connect cables/peripherals that are used all the time (e.g.
ethernet, usb data connection to the UPS, usb connected CM19a X10
transceiver.)
- Keep file systems simple. (I.e. keep audio/video and other data on a
separate disk, ideally with an ext4 filesystem. For the OS disk, I
don't even use LVM. Why add another layer of abstraction to a file
system that will remain largely static?)
Again, I'm offering these in the spirit of 'this works for me'. I'm not
claiming that these constitute some sort of deity-sanctioned best
practice.
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