Hello,
I recently made a redhat 9 server, running apache 2.0. The problem is, about, lets say every 2 hours, the computer starts slowing down, and the hard drive light is on, and you can hear the hard drive working. At first I thought this was a type of denial of service attack, but looking through my logs, I get no luck. I am starting to think it has somthing to do with my computer running out of ram. It has 24 megabytes of ram in it, and a 450 mhz cpu. I realy am not getting frequent hits, (maybe 10 an hour or so) any suggestion, or comments on to what this could be?
Thanks
-NaMtRaC
(when I was younger I used to post here under the user namtrac)

When it slows down, what does free tell you? Is it swapping? How big is your swap space? Is the hard drive making clicking sounds? Anymore details or info help out or we're as clueless as you are. 24megs of RAM though, if its not the hard drive, more RAM won't hurt but it could be bad RAM if it starts doing this after 2 hours, starts swapping and thrashing badly, etc.

Well I realy dont have this computer hooked up to.. anything, so the next time it starts doing it, I guess i'll plug a monitor and keyboard into it (I usualy do stuff via SSH) I dont think its swaping, thus I have no clue what my swap space is.. (How do I find that out)
Thanks
-NaMtRaC

Okay I typed in free, and this is what came up
for total it was 21192, for used it was 20892 and free was 300, shared was 0, buffers was 544, cached was 6488, and swap was all 0

And that is when its getting slow and unresponsive, ready to crash?