High load on FC 3???

[Roger Grosswiler]

Hi list,

I have a Web- & Mailserver running, the responsetimes even let me drink several coffees, if i request my Mails via
squirrelmail.

My Hardware: HP Netserver P3/886 mhz, 128 mb ram

Most consumpting processes: apache, amavisd-new (including virual check), spamd, postfix, cyrus, mysql...see list below

top - 09:51:20 up 4 days, 14:54,  1 user,  load average: 4.99, 2.77, 1.85
Tasks: 104 total,   1 running, 103 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2% us,  0.6% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 98.1% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    126288k total,   124124k used,     2164k free,      612k buffers
Swap:   262136k total,   132232k used,   129904k free,    15156k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21266 apache    15   0 27700 9.8m 3632 D  1.0  7.9   0:18.49 httpd
29426 amavis    17   0 42644  20m 2416 D  1.0 16.9   0:03.68 amavisd
29783 root      16   0  2888  892  696 R  0.7  0.7   0:05.72 top
 5396 root      15   0 15232 1564 1104 S  0.3  1.2  23:06.53 X
29433 amavis    17   0 43036  20m 2500 D  0.3 16.9   0:03.06 amavisd
29855 cyrus     16   0 29768 2120 1828 D  0.3  1.7   0:00.04 imapd

...look at the load average ;-)

i already forked most apps from 8 to 5 back to 3 forks max to save ressources. but i get the impression, that it is
just one process, that somehow is just misconfigured...do you have any hints for me?

btw. i would be very interessted, what the 3 figures on tload effective mean :-)

Roger