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On 05/24/2012 05:58 AM, Rajesh Kumar. Mallah wrote:
> Dear Andy ,
>
> Following the discussion on load average we are now  investigating on some
> other parts of the stack (other than db).
>
> Essentially we are bumping up the limits (on appserver) so that more requests
> goes to the DB server.
Which leads to the question: what, other than the db, runs on this machine?

Cheers,
Steve