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On 9/12/07, Simon Avery <flash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Wonnacott wrote: > > > Every 15 minutes or so it refuses (or drops existing) connections (smtp, > > pop3, ssh) pings become slow (anything from 1-100ms). tailing syslog or > > messages suggests that nothing is happening, top shows nothing special. > > then after about 5 minutes it just comes back and pretends nothing > > happened. pings to it return in <1ms and all is fine and dandy again. > > Check /var/log/syslog for kernel or module errors. Linux documents many > types of hardware failure there as well as dmesg. > It is possible that driver faults may not make it to syslog, have a look at the dmesg output, eg just type "dmesg | less" as root and scan for any naughty looking messages. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html