Optimizing a catalog

["Bill" <bill@webteam.net>]

Hi,

I have a single catalog that is experiencing about 20-40,000 page views a
day.  I'm running MV3.12 on a Digital Alpha with 512 MB of RAM.  I use mySQL
and file based sessions.

I was wondering if anyone out there has any recommendations for optimizing
my catalog, my server has a load averaging 4-5 at peak hours and many
customers are receiving Error Messages because the Minivend server can
handle the number of requests (I'm not blaming Minivend, I know I need to do
some work to make things run more efficiently).  I currently have MaxServers
set to 15, Hammerlock to 120, Housekeeping to 15, and PID check to 300.

Thanks,

Bill