[ic] Should I buy another CPU?

[Orko]

<SNIP>
> > <music@labyrinth.net.au> writes:
> > 
> > > I would really like to try the (RPC mode, MaxServers 0) solution and
> > > see how it goes before investing in more hardware, particularly as
> > > it is suggested that it may not be a hardware problem.
> > 
> > ,----[ interchange.cfg ]
> > | # Set to "low", "high", or "rpc" to get different server parameters.
> > | Variable  TRAFFIC  rpc
> > |
> > | ifdef TRAFFIC =~ /rpc/i
> > | Message RPC traffic settings.
> > | PreFork             Yes
> > | StartServers        5
> > | MaxServers          0
> > | MaxRequestsPerChild 100
> > | HouseKeeping        2
> > | PIDcheck            120
> > | endif
> > `----
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the StartServers config of 5 will conflict with the
> > MaxServers of 0.
> 
> I don't *think* that it will conflict.  MaxServers 0 isn't actually
> setting the MaxServers to 0, it's setting it to unlimited.  As Mike
> explained it means that Interchange will not use two of the Perl signals
> to determine the number of running servers, it will spawn as many as it
> needs.
</SNIP>

I've been running with that exact configuration (StartServers 5) and the
MaxServers 0 setting since the patch was found.  No problems to report. 
...and conversions have improved by 5% with no additional changes
through Verisign!  THANK YOU MIKE AND RON!

Whether new hardware would have aleviated the symptoms or not I would
rather have this patch in and not have to worry about sometime in the
future when the server is loaded more.  I'm running a PIII 800, 1G RAM
and SCSI RAID - sure, I could throw some more RAM at it or upgrade the
processor, but then I would feel like a M$ user... ;-)