Slow performance - Linux & Tomcat

Hi..having some real performance problems w/my current hosting company on a JSP app (running in Tomcat against MYSQL). Seems to me like either their servers or network are overloaded, but I'm having trouble confirming this or finding out why..

Below is output from TOP..not too bad this time, but I saw load averages of *9* once, and 4-6 pretty regularly (usually in the evenings). Also 470 processes seems a bit high to me for an Intel/Linux machine..

Is this box just WAY overloaded? It is dual CPU - not sure of clock speed.

(Note: my simple little login window - no DB access..just a GIF and a FORM - is sometimes taking 10-20 seconds to load into the browser at times..obviously NOT GOOD!)

2:16pm up 11 days, 3:04, 6 users, load average: 2.19, 2.76, 2.40
473 processes: 470 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 44.3% user, 23.0% system, 0.0% nice, 32.2% idle
CPU1 states: 36.6% user, 30.1% system, 0.0% nice, 32.4% idle
Mem: 2065212K av, 1978352K used, 86860K free, 0K shrd, 134460K buff
Swap: 522072K av, 43684K used, 478388K free 1301436K cached

Thanks for any comments/ideas..

Jim

 

 

 

 

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