Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/11 09:55, Davide Mirtillo wrote: sic > If anyone knows about VPS/dedicated machines with specs (and possibly > budget) similar to this [*], you can let me know at this email address. > > [*] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserve

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 09/02/2011 10:09, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: > Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/9/2011 1:06 AM: > >>> Is this a brand name server, white box, DIY? If the latter, what >>> motherboard? >> >> It's a low end dedicated server i am renting. I've had it for about a >> week now. > > FULL STOP! > > Do

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d5259c3.4060...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/9/2011 1:06 AM: >>> Is this a brand name server, white box, DIY? If the latter, what >>> motherboard? >> >> It's a low end dedicated server i am renting. I've had it for about a >> week now. > >FULL STOP

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/9/2011 1:06 AM: >> Is this a brand name server, white box, DIY? If the latter, what >> motherboard? > > It's a low end dedicated server i am renting. I've had it for about a > week now. FULL STOP! Don't pay another cent for that crap. Demand they switch you to

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 09/02/2011 08:32, shawn wilson ha scritto: >> I installed the 32bit OS because the 64bit ones i tried were crashing >> miserably. I know i shouldnt be using the 32bit bigmem kernel, but it >> was the default when i installed lenny using the preconfigured images >> from the datace

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Davide Mirtillo wrote: > Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: > >> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has > > > > Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why > run > > the bigmem kernel on a machin

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: >> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has > > Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run > the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only > needed for PAE,

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/8/2011 5:25 AM: > I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only needed for PAE, which me

Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Hello, i would like to ask for help since i am feeling a bit clueless here. I recently bought a low end dedicated machine that was supposed to host some services: squid, proftpd and rtorrent. I installed debian lenny and immediately updated to squeeze and configured the services. I started rtorre