linux maintenance, maybe

[megenta]

I installed and help run a linux game (half-life) server. We've had very little experience with linux, and not all positive, but with the tools we wanted to use, and after checking out some of the distrabution avaiable we went with Caldera eDesktop 2.4. The installation went smoothly, and the system ran very well at first but after runing it for 2 months (pretty much 24/7) the system is slowing down, take's a lot longer to boot up than it did two months ago and durning a shutdown and reboot, I recieved a message saying that I needed to fsck, and refused to shutdown or start up. I've had too run fsck serveral times and system performance is really poor. Is there some sort of system maintenance that I need to do. I'm sure there is (such as defrag and anti-virus scans), but I looked through the web sites and haven't found and haven't found much documentation on system maintenance. This area seems to be documentented better. I found lots of help with set-up and hardware trouble shooting, but virtually nothing on day to day maintenance. Please help. Thank's in advance.

[prince_kenshi]

A good place to start is /var/log/*. It sounds like something on the machine is giving it fits which might be in syslog. Check through the log files, preferably just after the problem occurs to reduce search time, for something that's giving errors. You can also run top to see if anything is hogging resources.

[bdg1983]

I've been running eDesktop 2.4 at the office for around 9 months now although not 24/7 and have not noticed any slowdowns at all.

As suggested, I would check the logs first.