[ic] HELP performance problem on live system

[Dan Browning]

At 01:34 PM 3/7/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I have interchange running in "high traffic" mode that is choking. It is
>using mysql.

Administer CPR immediately.  Or did you have another definition of 
"choking"?  :-)

>I'm running on a 512mb system with a single processor Pentium iii
>800mhz. The system is taking about 25 orders per hour and their appears
>to be about 20 to 30 simultaneous connections at any one time. load
>average on the Linux system is around 8.00.
>
>Should I up the maxservers on interchange (currently 10)?
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Peter

For hardware, 512mb is like $140 these days and a U160 hdd isn't much 
more.  For software, you can try more maxservers if you're not maxing out 
your RAM already (don't count too much for hdd caching).  Also try rpc 
mode.  You can index your database really well, too, and don't forget to 
regularly expire your sessions.  You can optimize your apache (lots of docs 
on that).  There is also a lot to do for optimizing the OS (new kernel, 
disable "last accessed" on file systems, etc.), but focusing more on IC is 
probably a better use of your time.  Good luck,


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