I posted this over in the sever section but I thought I may as well put it here too:

Hi everyone, I need a bit of help with my server.

I'm running a SLES 10.1 server on my home network.

On it I run apache to maintain a simple website, squid to help me get around my schools web filter, vsftp so my friends and I can store files on it, and icecast for broadcasting my music over the net for wherever I happen to be.

Now my problem is, after having it on for 2 or 3 hours my network gets very very slow. It is fine during that 2 to 3 hour period, but after that the speed on any other computer is unbearable. I have looked through the log files and I know that nobody else is accessing it but me.

So does anyone have an ideas? what can cause a server to run fine on a network for a few hours then have it slow down to a snails pace?

I know for a fact that its my server btw because when I turn it off the speed of my network shoots up instantly.

thanks in advance for the help

This turns out to be completely wrong. As you are admitting that this is a cross-post, you will find that there will be a mod along soon. (Makes whistling noise, tries to look like an innocent bystander :-)

As cross-posts are 'outlawed' on this site, one of the posts will get blocked.

One of the consequences of this (unintended???) is that experinced people don't reply to cross-posts because they know that there is a 50:50 chance (or worse, if you cross-post more than once per submission) that their reply will go into the wrong thread and get lost.

So cross-posting makes it less likely that you will get a reply from someone other than a newbie on this forum and makes it inevitable that you will get a moderator on your back.

ah my mistake, I wasn't aware that this was against the rules