We run a database system that leaves a large number of connections to the
database open, but inactive most of the time. Since the database is of the
classic server variety, each database connection spawns a new copy of the
database. We have a four CPU Dell server with four GB of RAM.
My problem is that the load on the computer is often well above 6, sometimes
it gets up to 12, at which point even the keyboard on the consol is
painfully slow. Looking at the cpu usage and memory usage, I am surprised to
find that they are not that high. However there seems to be a direct
correlation between the number of processes (our database connections) and
the load.
My question: Is there something special that needs to be done to configure
Mandrake or the kernel to handle large numbers (400+) of processes?
Wondering what it all means,
Pat
Patrick Warn
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