Hi:

I am a relative FreeBSD noob here! I am running 5.2 on a Dell 1425 with dual 2.8 Gig 1 meg cache Xeons. I have two SATA HD's- one for OS, one for Data. It serves Apache- I have one front end apache install... and two Back end (Mod-Perl) installs. That is running 2 Links installs and 2 forums installs (one mod_perl back for each Links/Forum pair).

SO I am trying to get the server running as good as I can. I have plenty of Mem (2 Gigs), and my CPUs are pretty much overkill. It is a heavy-traffic site (over 300K page views a day), but I think I should be able to handle it. Top shows no less than 50% idle, and we never hit Swap. This is why I do not think CPU or Mem is the problem.

BUT- I also have a high Load Average. What I want to do is figure out WHY I have a high LA, and fix that! ere is a sample from TOP:

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last pid: 90709; load averages: 1.90, 1.58, 1.53
up 2+01:32:18 11:12:43
127 processes: 5 running, 122 sleeping
CPU states: 37.0% user, 0.0% nice, 8.6% system, 0.4% interrupt, 54.0% idle
Mem: 892M Active, 561M Inact, 184M Wired, 81M Cache, 112M Buf, 288M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 1580K Used, 2046M Free
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SO where should I look (and how)? Could it be a i/o problem, and how would I check and ultimately solve that? What can help me get the LA down to "acceptible" levels?

Thanks!
Dave
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