I really hate running SpamAssassin without having Razor enabled, as it picks up a fair amount of the virus mail that'd be otherwise missed, but lately I've been having to turn off Razor. For reasons I don't understand the Razor servers have been horribly non-responsive for me, leaving the TCP connections to them in a half-constructed state. It doesn't take too long before a bunch of these hang around, which then takes my server down to its knees. It's only got 128M of RAM and 128M of swap, and that's apparently just not enough for a mail/ftp/web server any more. Pity.
I suppose I should throw a larger hard drive and more memory into the thing, but honestly I'm as tempted to move all the services over to the PowerMac that's in the server closet as well. Not only is it running OS X, like all the other machines actually in use around the house here, but it's got a lot more space internally for more drives than the Compaq Presario 2266 that is the linux server, which is already maxxed out.
I suppose I could throw a half-gig of memory into the PowerMac and a couple of 200G hard drives easily enough. Its only lack is a second ethernet card, and potentially good IP masquerading, though I don't (yet) need that.
Posted by Dan at January 24, 2003 04:08 PM | TrackBack (0)