Load average high!!!

[Vinayakam Murugan]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 02:09, you wrote:

> > A load of 5 is not that bad.  The best performance measure you can use is
> > message delay, I think.
> >
> > A load of 5 only means that at all times, 5 processes are waiting for
> > some resource.  However, if those 5 processes are MS processes...
> >
> > I think ram can really be a bottleneck.
> >
> > Once it starts swapping, it can really kill your server.
> >
> > How many max child process?  I don't think you'd need more than 1...

I have max child processes as 3. I will try reducing it and check the
difference.

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