Re: SuSE 10.0 file server slowing down and freezing

DanEskildsen wrote:
Hi all!

Greetings from Denmark. The weather is cold and gray skies over here.
Boring.

I have a file server with SuSE 10.0 installed serving files to a small
group of individuals (about 5-10 users) using Samba. (The users all
have windows XP on their desktop machines.)

The server has been working with this setup for about 18 months
without any problems whatsoever. But the last few months a problem has
shown up. Every now and then the server slows to a crawl and basically
stops - it is still running but so slowly that it is impossible to do
anything remotely (webmin or ssh) via samba or even on the physical
machine.

The only solution has been to power off the machine and start it up
again. Once up it runs great again. This has happened about 5 times in
about 2 months, seems to be happening more frequently now.

My first thought was that the hard disk was full. df reports the
following:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 127005972 21595360 105410612 18% /
tmpfs 509728 0 509728 0% /dev/shm

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards,
Dan

One potential problem is that you don't have a swap partition, so if
there are enough processes running or needing big data files open, you
could be running out of memory. Take some of that spare space and turn
it into a swap file.

If you have Firefox 1.x running on it, it was notorious for slowing or
locking up with memory problems, even with 1G RAM and 1G swap.
Upgrading Firefox to 2.0 will help.

John
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