Matt_Probert - 1:27 pm on May 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

Is it normal for web servers to run at 100 % cpu load

Not a Linux server, they shouldn't exceed about 5% - if they do you've got problems!

In any event it sounds like too many concurrent "jobs" running, this could be that searches or whatever are taking too long to finish, and as someone else suggested, you may need to address the question of your indices.

Matt