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Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:40:25 +0100
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> One day I logged into our file server and ran it out of
> swap by mistake.

although you can now run all components on
one cpu server, it's still best to scrounge the
extra machine to keep the file server and cpu server
separate, and to run a limited set of services on the file server.
i don't see why it can't be the auth server as well.
i put the file servers on a cheap UPS as well, to reduce anxiety
about scrambled or lost data in venti archives (although
on wednesday morning i bumped into
someone else in a shared machine room who
was crouched down changing some
batteries that had gone bad on their UPS).