overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

[N.J. Thomas]

* N.J. Thomas <njt at ayvali.org> [2005-12-01 14:38:13 -0500]:
> We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3
> webservers.
> 
> During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than
> normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its
> knees.

I forgot to mention that the webservers are running FreeBSD 4.11 and
Apache 1.3.x.

Thomas

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