In article <Jjo7j.14245$Mu4.13532@bignews7.bellsouth.net>,
Robby Workman <newsgroups@rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On 2007-12-10, Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> wrote:
[...]
> > The problem is that `hald' slowly keeps eating up more and more RAM
> > over time.
[...]
> Well, if all this box is doing is functioning as a fileserver,
> I would disable HAL entirely - it serves no purpose for you.

Well, it would be nice if it were possible in a user-friendly way (i.e.
without manual mounting) for the owner to pop in a CD or DVD and copy
its contents to the server directly, without having to use the network.

> That being said, there were a lot of fixes in the hal release
> that's now in -current, so you might try building that version
> on your 12.0 box (be sure to build hal-info too - 0.5.10 requires
> the newer hal-info vice versa) [1]

Thanks, I've tried that. So far, so good -- in a few days to a week I'll
know whether it helped.

- Martijn