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Originally Posted by Eikinskjaldi

Not that high?? I have a server with similar specs and I start to gnaw my nails when the load hits 2 (Or I would do...1.5 is its max so far). The number of queries doesn't matter, its how long they take that does. 100 good queries beats 1 bad query any day.

Turn on debug mode and see if you can pinpoint the bottleneck.

you do know that for each processor / processor core present on the server, an acceptable load increment of 1.0 is normal load ?

So for a dual processor machine, normal load would be 2.0. Having a load of 3.X isn't bad, its bad if you have only 20 people online and 35 pathetic queries through badly coded mods taking the wind out of the server.