Hello all,
I have a GNU/Linux Debian server running: apache, jboss, proftpd and postgresql (RAM: 16GB, 4 core Xeon). Max Apache process is 1200, same thing for the Jboss DB Pool. And I can have up to 400 simultaneous FTP download. Load average can raise 5 (1 most of time). What do you think about that? Is this server considered as "too loaded"?
Regards,
You might be better off with less threads for some of your components. Having too many is actually less efficient. You are better off with a queue and being able to process your work more efficiently, allowing the threads to spend more time working and less time context switching.
That being said, I would not say that a server with a load average of 1 is too loaded. It might be working hard, but if there is only one process that is ready for a CPU at a time, on average, that is not bad at all.
Is it "too slow"?
Jacob