Re: [cobalt-users] slow email

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mathieu Lagarde wrote:

> I got something like that with one of my computer at home running linux
> mandrake.  I find that the problem was each time i run something linux put
> the application on the cache memory and never clean it, so after sometime
> to machine was so slow that i have to reboot-it.  The only way i find to
> fix it was by updating the kernel to 2.4, but not sure that is a good idea
> to this on your raq.  Good way to know if it's the same problem log on in
> telnet check your memory usage, run some application check again.  If it's
> that you go na see that whatever you do your free memory go na take less
> and less place.

Look at my top command (sorry for the long lines):

  5:39am  up 120 days, 19:30,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.02,
0.00    
31 processes: 30 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0
stopped                 
CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.3% system,  0.0% nice, 99.4%
idle              
Mem:   63152K av,  61520K used,   1632K free,  29584K shrd,   3204K
buff  
Swap: 131536K av,  10756K used, 120780K free                 39828K
cached

Look at my free memory.  That's pretty high usage, pretty low free
memory.  Yet my RaQ3i is still offering prompt website hosting
(http://www.mailtraqna.com/"; AND offering email services for a few
hundred people (a small ISP) and the mail does NOT shut down or get
slow.

BTW, if you want to look at the site, please do so soon; this RaQ3i is
being moved by the end of the week, and will be offline for a while, and
the uptime will of course change after the move.

Jeff
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