I've beening running a dedicated Linux server for over a year now for a small scifi community and server supporting business to make it self-sufficent. But since I upgraded from RH9 to FC3, my system "chugs".

I've gone through top, looked through processed, even with 94% idle, it's
chugging.

Now for the weird stuff: If my uptime report shoots up to 14.9 or something, it's still happy as a clam. But when it chugs, it's around 3.9 or 4.10.

The *only* thing I have found that seems to lighten the load is killing portsentry. But that only works maybe half the time. I can reboot, the system seems ok for a while then it eventually starts all over again.
Initially I thought it was morning backups since it only happened between 8am and 930am since there was nothing erroring out in the logs.
But then it started to creep in around 6:00pm so now I'm looking for new ways to tackle this.

I have a P4-2.2 with 1 GB Ram on a 80GB/40GB system with a Travan tape drive and Panasonic CDRW I use for backups.

Thoughts?
-Dante!

System > Services

Dd you disable the useless?


What kernel are you on? When you say "upgrade", did you install fresh or ?

Hi dares,

I'm running:
Linux dantes.ca 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I upgraded by using the FC3 cds.

I took a walk through the the services, disabling the ones I didn't need (after I man'd them to make sure I knew what they did first).

My uptime since I've last posted has spiked to 28.3 at times.
If it ever went above 7.0 under RH9, it would freeze.
The only other odd thing this the PHYS error I get with the 8169 1 Gb netcard I added in for internal use.

Users seem happy, email, games, and shop is working.
Firewall seems intact, usual traffic.

So I don't know what I'm missing.

I've upgraded to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 #1 now, reading et good.