[vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Crawford
Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've tried # tail -f /var/log/messages but nothing comes up when this happens. Also, nothing unusual crops up when I examine dmesg; the system just bogs

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Alex Mandel
Richard Crawford wrote: Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've tried # tail -f /var/log/messages but nothing comes up when this happens. Also, nothing unusual crops up when I examine

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:16:07 Alex Mandel wrote: Richard Crawford wrote: Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've tried # tail -f /var/log/messages but nothing comes up when

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:42, Richard Crawford wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:16:07 Alex Mandel wrote: ... When it starts to get boggy what shows up with Top? Nothing unusual. That was the first thing I checked for. Since my wife and I primarily use this server for email, and we

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Gandalf Parker
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Richard Crawford wrote: Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot. I've tried # tail -f /var/log/messages but nothing comes up when this happens. Also, nothing unusual crops up

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:29:57 Gandalf Parker wrote: Do you have a web server like Apache running? Do the apache logs show alot of bot hits? I recently had to do some major robots.txt work for no other reason than the google image bot falling in love with my system. I hadn't thought about

Re: [vox-tech] System Slow down

2007-03-06 Thread Gandalf Parker
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Richard Crawford wrote: Though I'm still seeing a lot of hits. They will still come (to see the robots file and leave hopefully) but it did make a big difference on my machine. Now Im trying to tweak it so that they can see the main pages but not further. It looks like