Performance

[Dead Eye]

Not really

The load is soo low that this is more than likely a network / hardware problem more than anything else. In fact my bet is on the hard drive - its probably too slow to keep up with the number of requests from the SQL server (or equivalent - not sure what is used).

I partly rent a seedbox for torrents (all legal, I promise) but the hard drive is soooo slow that if you start more than 3 or so torrents then the system load rises to something like 10 - this will mean something to simonm more than anyone else I imagine. Essentially a system load of 1 means that everything is being processed as its being received, higher than 1 means that instructions are having to queue before they are dealt with. On most production servers, anything about 1 is usually bad Where I work, anything above 0.2 is considered reasonably heavy load