Hello All, Redhat 9 (shrike) Mysql 4.0.15 Apache 1.3.29 PHP 4.3.3 Server Conf ============ [4 CPUs] Dual Xeon 2.4 1GB RAM 73GB SCSI, 80GB IDE HD No of Sites : only 2 (which are very Busy and mysql intensive ) Http.conf ========= Timeout 300 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 120 KeepAliveTimeout 10 MinSpareServers 10 MaxSpareServers 20 StartServers 5 MaxClients 512 MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 my.cnf ====== [mysqld] set-variable = max_connections=700 safe-show-database key_buffer = 200M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M join_buffer_size = 8M read_buffer_size = 8M sort_buffer_size = 12M table_cache = 1028 thread_cache_size = 800 wait_timeout = 10 interactive_timeout=10 connect_timeout = 10 max_allowed_packet = 32M max_connect_errors = 10 thread_concurrency=4 query_cache_limit = 2M query_cache_size = 45M query_cache_type = 1 skip-innodb log-slow-queries = /var/log/mysql_slow_query_log long_query_time = 5 [mysqld_safe] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log open_files_limit = 8192 [mysqldump] quick max_allowed_packet = 16M [isamchk] key_buffer=64M sort_buffer=64M read_buffer=16M write_buffer=16M [myisamchk] key_buffer = 64M sort_buffer = 64M read_buffer=16M write_buffer = 16M Turck-MMCache Enabled (Zend Extension) top ==== 05:46:25 up 12 days, 17:35, 3 users, load average: 7.46, 9.02, 10.76 509 processes: 501 sleeping, 6 running, 1 zombie, 1 stopped CPU0 states: 64.2% user 19.1% system 0.1% nice 0.0% iowait 16.0% idle CPU1 states: 64.0% user 19.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 16.3% idle CPU2 states: 60.3% user 23.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 16.0% idle CPU3 states: 60.2% user 20.5% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 18.3% idle Mem: 1030244k av, 912116k used, 118128k free, 0k shrd, 187872k buff 534216k actv, 49792k in_d, 18180k in_c Swap: 2096440k av, 132220k used, 1964220k free 441464k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 12228 mysql 15 0 23588 20M 1444 S 99.9 2.0 56:42 3 mysqld 3419 root 15 0 2676 1684 1616 S 7.0 0.1 13:57 1 httpd Can Anyone please tell me why I am not able to get the Load Down and the site Load Faster.The server load is always above 5.00 Thanks in Advance. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list