From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O4Lbt-0006U6-BV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:08:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DA11E0AC1; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B835AE0AC1 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:07:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,243,1270422000"; d="scan'208";a="182984587" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2010 23:07:23 +0100 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896CD56EE5 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:07:20 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <45344215-F2DA-46C6-97A3-117F13C2681D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4BCD97B0.3050305@xunil.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:07:21 +0100 References: <4BCD97B0.3050305@xunil.at> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 683242b2-beca-40e1-9543-55d999edc0d7 X-Archives-Hash: 80add77a179fe2122b042a2df11c5d88 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.