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I'm the script owner, I'm also server guru ;)
boneprone has a p4 2.4ghz cpu (400 or 533mhz fsb I suppose) with no Hyperthreading. 2Gb ram and Freebsd 4.X
last pid: 26998; load averages: 1.12, 1.35, 1.83 up 7+10:32:19 01:09:37
849 processes: 3 running, 789 sleeping, 57 zombie
CPU states: 19.2% user, 0.0% nice, 26.8% system, 4.7% interrupt, 49.3% idle
Mem: 1022M Active, 394M Inact, 375M Wired, 59M Cache, 199M Buf, 161M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 76M Used, 1972M Free, 3% Inuse
as I see, too many sleeping proccess that eat memory cause to use SWAP sometimes. When there is no script running, server runs ok. 1.0 to 2.0 loads are acceptable. But its at border. When a script runs from crontab, it begins to delay proccess and server is loaded with 3.0 to 7.0
I use same script on AMD Athlon XP 2.4 ghz, 512 ram server, which works fine without any load. Of course I only have one site hosted at this server, thats why.
I think Single Xeon 2.8ghz (800mhz fsb) with 1mb cache will resolve problem temporarily. But if he increases his hits like double them, a second xeon cpu may required.
Having a second server for thumbs also may help, but then they have to be syncronised frequently. Even thumbs hosted at a second server, a new cpu is required. He gets soo much clicks for UCJ ;)
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