On Apr 11, 2005 9:50 PM, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: > > The bf kernel is for boot floppies. You'll likely get better > performance out of the -k7-smp kernels. For example: > > kernel-image-2.4-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on AMD K7 SMP > > This package will install the latest 2.4 kernel that is optimized for > multiple AMD K7 processors. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Package: kernel-image-2.4-k7-smp > Priority: optional > Section: base > Installed-Size: 8 > Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel at lists.debian.org> > Architecture: i386 > Source: kernel-latest-2.4-i386 > Version: 101 > Depends: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7-smp > Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-latest-2.4-i386/kernel-image-2.4-k7-smp_101_i386.deb > Size: 2154 > MD5sum: 4de6fe159a8a614ef33e9b1a5ed08615 > Description: Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on AMD K7 SMP > This package will always depend on the latest 2.4 kernel image available for > AMD Duron/Athlon with SMP support. > SMP (symmetric multi-processing) is needed if you have multiple processors. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Notice that this package depends upon kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7-smp. > This is what is known as a virtual package. If you want to follow the > 2.6 kernel, install kernel-image-2.6-k7-smp. > > I'd definitely install the optimized kernel. Part of your problem is > qmail (memory hog), so consider postfix (many small, secure, well > crafted applications) or exim4 (embedded Perl interpretor) as an > alternative. Excellent, thanks for the info! The qmail solution was something I inherited. I had the opportunity to rebuild the server (read: unmaintained rh6.2 got root'd) but really had to keep the existing data structure with qmail/vpopmail to get the server back online in any kind of reasonable time. Hopefully the extra hardware will take care of this. > Also consider the following package: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Package: irqbalance > Priority: extra > Section: utils > Installed-Size: 112 > Maintainer: Eric Dorland <eric at debian.org> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 0.12-1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), debconf (>> 1.3) > Filename: pool/main/i/irqbalance/irqbalance_0.12-1_i386.deb > Size: 13888 > MD5sum: bb1a52a762fe2358076149be2d31dbe6 > Description: Balances irq's for SMP systems > Daemon to balance irq's across multiple CPUs on systems with the 2.4 > or 2.6 kernel. Only useful on SMP systems. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looks like an interesting package, I can probably use it with the load this servers seeing. Thank you again! -- timo == thoughts truncated ==