updatedb

modified the updatedb.conf file to explicitly ignore /home and /local It should have been ignoring those anyways since they are nfs based, but it was still indexing them.

The changes to the tcp parameters I tried earlier did not seem to have any noticeable effect.

Another weird thing that I have noticed is that gnome is not always killing all of the user processes upon logout....

server problems

been having more server problems, so trying

trying some tcp tuning based on
http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html

I've doubled the values in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem
I also increased the size of the ip_local_port_range

If this doesn't work, then the next step is to try to increase the size
of the nfs read and write blocks, after that it is back to square one.

kerberos hiccup

For some reason or another kerberos failed on Tuesday morning, at least for server and unix. Strangely it did not fail on the machines in the redcay lab. Taking a look at it today, it seems like it works again on unix and server. Both Symen and Hap did not notice anything strange on their end.

update: I spoke too soon, it isn't resolved yet.

Also, there was another brief problem with the human resource database, but I just added the faculty to the manual database and it worked out fine.