Do you then have 8GB of swap space? As far as I understand the 2.4 kernel requires a swap space twice as large as physical memory. This was not necessary with the 2.2 kernel.
-- Bjarne Patrick warn wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." > - Arthur C. Clarke > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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