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From:Chris Aitken (The Web Hub) Date:February 24 2005 9:05pm
Subject:Re: Excessive Server Load Problems
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At 05:59 AM 25/02/2005, Atle Veka wrote:

>"packs it in"? Do you mean like you say that sendmail actually crashes
>when load goes above 5? I would guess sendmail is rather throttling itself
>and that you are seeing log messages about sendmail refusing connections.
>Is this a correct assumption? Sendmail can be configured to operate with
>higher loads. If sendmail actually dies, there's something really unusual
>going on.

By "packs it in" I mean that its configured currently to cease working at 
load of 5 and above. It doesnt crash as such, but is set to shut down in 
the config of sendmail if load gets too high.

>To me it sounds like you are having problems with your database design and
>that you could benefit from some indexes perhaps. Do you have any indexes?
>If you list your table structure and queries that are bogging things down,
>the mysql list will be more than happy to help you. :)

Its highly possible as this is the first database ive had to use with a 
large number of records. I shall look into indexing part of databasing now. 
Any suggested places to start that explains it helpfully ?




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Chris Aitken
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