Stanly,
Just reading over your post and digesting all of the heavy-hitters bounce these things back and forth and I???m trying to apply this to situations I have been in personally.
You see, I have also had systems that slowed down to miserable levels and I also beat my head against the wall for hours (sometimes days) trying to come up with an answer. Unfortunately, this was when all I knew about Unix was how to search for a file and get to the directory that it was in. After that I had to ask other people what I should do and I didn???t have the benefit of this (or any other) forum at the time.
After running around for extended periods of time and chasing each suggestion to the best of my ability, someone asked me how long the box had been up without being reset. The answer to that was surpassing to us all (gotta love Unix in that respect).
At that point, nobody told me that you shouldn???t have to reboot a Unix box so that was my first response. You know what? It worked beautifully after that for yet another extended period of time. It wasn???t until I had gone through that process several times that someone told me I shouldn???t have to reboot Unix boxes.
Don???t tell anyone, but when all else fails I still will reset one that has been up too long and/or is slowing down beyond tolerable levels.
Oh, yeah. This is supposed to be a forum to help people find answers to problems, not a story post. Sorry.
It???s a shame that my story couldn???t be of assistance to you, but since it involves rebooting a Unix box to solve a problem I guess it won???t be a popular answer.
Thanks for reading anyway.
P.S. How long has it been since your box has been reset, anyway? Just currious???
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
