advice about NFS/SMB tuning

2004-11-24 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
We are going to acquire a multi-TB NAS here with a couple of gigaethernet. I'd like to collect information and suggestions about -filesystem choices -NFS and SMB performance tuning -gigaeth tuning (load balancing?) Files will be quite large (in a range 50M-500M). Any hints about will be

Re: Runaway processes ?

2004-11-24 Thread Uffe Pensar
Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:28:43PM +0200, Ulf Pensar wrote: We have an emailserver that we had to reboot the hard way a couple of times a week.Now its a couple of time a day (perhaps because the number of users have been growing) [...] the inetd generates root owned

Re: Runaway processes ?

2004-11-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:15:43PM +0200, Uffe Pensar wrote: [141 lines of quoted material deleted. please learn to trim your quotes ] ok thanks for all the good advices, I will install postfix and have a look att the dovecot and xinetd packages if you're running dovecot, you don't need