[vox-tech] System Slow down

[Gandalf Parker]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Richard Crawford wrote:

> Every now and then my FC3 server gets bogged down with heavy disk usage, to
> the point where the system is unusable and I have to reboot.  I've tried
>
> # tail -f /var/log/messages
>
> but nothing comes up when this happens.  Also, nothing unusual crops up when I
> examine dmesg; the system just bogs down heavily for no obvious reason.

Do you have a web server like Apache running? Do the apache logs show alot 
of bot hits? I recently had to do some major robots.txt work for no other 
reason than the google image bot falling in love with my system.

Gandalf  Parker