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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:07:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45344215-F2DA-46C6-97A3-117F13C2681D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCD97B0.3050305@xunil.at>


On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> ...
> One of my customers runs an old P3 as a mail-gateway and samba-server
> (yeah, I know ...) behind his firewall ...
>
> They simply don't want to swap hardware, they are happy ... until the
> following started to happen every week or so:

You emphasise how old the hardware is, but this really isn't a  
problem. As you say, one increasingly fears the death of a system  
which is getting so old, but I have two systems nearly as old running  
for years without hardware problems.

The questions I must ask are:

- How uptodate is the Gentoo software?
- Do you run updates regularly?
- Did you run any shortly before this started occurring?
- Have you run revdep-rebuild and stuff?
- Does the system have sufficient swap?

Stroller.
  



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4BCD97B0.3050305@xunil.at>
2010-04-20 12:35 ` [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-04-20 22:07 ` Stroller [this message]
2010-04-21  7:28   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-04-21  9:09     ` Stroller
2010-04-22 15:31       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-04-22 15:50         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-22 16:24           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-04-22 16:52             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-22 21:16               ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-04-22 21:46                 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-23  3:28             ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2010-04-23  8:17               ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-04-21  7:18 ` Mick
2010-04-21 20:50   ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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