Hi, Ken, You don't reveal much about your local configuration making it hard to offer useful advice - and of course Postgres is a different ball of wax. FWIW I noticed much lower idle cpu loads when I switched from the default setup to running 2 handlers on our lightly loaded system here. eg http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Performance/ProductionServer?action=show&redirect=Admin%2FConfig%2FPerformance YMMV On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Auerbach, Kenneth R. < KAUERBACH@research.bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hello,

I'm running Galaxy on a Linux server and have been getting warning messages about heavy loads on the CPU due to Galaxy. This is a dedicated Galaxy server and is currently used very lightly. There seem to be six idle postgres processes running, but only two jobs running. Any idea why the load is so high?

Thank you. Ken.

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