SNMP hammering machine HELP! :(

[Gabriel Granger <gabe@bdmedia.co.uk>]

HI all,

I use MRTG to monitor my servers, and wanted to next monitoring to the 
next level by getting information about the load, number of processes 
running, disk usage etc.   So i installed snmpd which works well, tho I 
have started to notice that when I'm logged in (only tried via ssh, 
never direct on the console) the machine locks up, its just like trying 
to work on a server/machine when the load is say above 10 - 15, you 
type something and 5 - 10 seconds later it appears, btw there is 
nothing in the system that confirms the hammering, ie load average is 
normal, memory looks fine, top shows nothing odd.

So my question is, is this normal? and why is this doing this to my 
machine and is there anyway to stop snmp for hammering the machine? is 
there another way of getting this information out of my system without 
hammering it?

2.4.18 custom kernel (being using this for almost a year)
the machine spec is
duron 1.4GHz
128Mb PC2100 Ram
Asus mobo
6Gb + 80Gb drive

 	- Regards -

		Gabe