[nycbug-talk] overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

[bruno]

N.J. Thomas wrote:

> The state of all the httpd prcesses are "nfsrcv". Does this mean the
> bottleneck is at the NFS server that hosts the htdocs (and PHP scripts)
> or just that the server is low on memory?

Does the NFS server lock up when you see the high load on clients?
Does the NFS server itself keep working, and can you acccess the server 
via NFS from clients?
Try using server-status in Apache to see what processes are doing, 
although they seem to be waiting for NFS.
Your Apaches are a bit large. What is your MaxClients set to?