On 2013/07/22 10:32, Lars Engblom wrote: > [Sorry for another top-posting. Already the last mail I intended to not > top-post but my phone does not allow anything else and I can not reach > any computer with decent client at the moment] > > Is there a chans this slow behavior is leading to crashes in old > equipment with little CPU and 1Gb of RAM? I almost always notice this > slowing down before it crashes.
That sounds different, maybe something like you could be running out of physical RAM and going into swap, and then perhaps running into login.conf datasize limits. A full report including console output might help clarify that. Watching top(1) while it runs into problems might be interesting too.