On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:30 -0600, adam fisher wrote: > I just brought up a new web server on fedora core. The load aver appears to > grow to the size of the MaxClients which is 150. If I lower it then the load > average lowers. > > When I run ps -aux | grep httpd, I have almost every httpd process in > uninterruptible sleep. Are these persistent connections that just aren't > being closed or is it something else?
Reading ahead, it looks like NFS has already been discovered as the
culprit, so I'll keep my message short. Any time you see a lot of
processes in uniterruptible sleep, that probably means you're
bottlenecking on I/O. You need faster hard drives, a fatter network
pipe, or similar.
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