[ILUG] server slow down

[Paul O'Malley]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 17:37, John Hegarty wrote:
> Server in a secondary school with novice administrator (me)
> 
> started using a linux server this year as our main server for intranet
> (apache) and fileserving (samba). It has been fast and reliable.It also
> runs MySQL and PHP.
> 
> However, last week it seems to have slowed down but I can't trace the
> problem. 
> 
> When users load up the intranet homepage (from linux, XP or win98) it
> takes about 15 seconds whereas in the past it was instant. It doesn't
> make any difference if you use the ip address rather than the server
> name.
> 
> When a user tries to save a document from staroffice to the server it
> can take about 10 seconds to load the save dialog whereas before it was
> instant.The default for saving is to the students home folder on the
> samba server
> 
> Access speeds to another samba server and an older MS webserver have not
> slowed down so I reckon it is something to do with this particular
> machine and is not a networking problem.
> 
> Tried a different network card and restarting various services but no
> change.
> 
> Any suggestions on what I should be looking for and how to look for it. 
> 
> jh
John 

Can you say when was the last time you checked your file system to see
if it is full. In my trying to imagine what way you are configured from
what you are saying /var/ is full if it is on a separate partition or
the logs are huge and are taking along time to be written to.
If this is not the case please come back to the list with some other
clues of what processes are running etc. If it is this I wonder are your
logs rotating.

Cheers

Paul O'Malley