Fwd: New Batch: Found 1768 messages waiting

[Drew Marshall]

On Fri, March 3, 2006 16:51, TAC Forums wrote:
> Hi
>
> I noticed that on our server for the past two days the load average
> has increased quite a bit. This I guess is because of a lot of
> messages coming in which needs to be scanned.
>
> My query - Will increasing my server's memory from 256 MB to 512 MB
> help reduce the load average?

With that number of messages waiting and only 256Mb of RAM your machine
will be almost at a stand still I would have thought. How many children
are you running as doubling the RAM should mean you can increase the child
processes?

Drew


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