When I run the statistics program wusage on my server, it brings the load to about 3 for a period of more than an hour. This high load is unaccpetable because it significantly slows down my forum. I usually end up killing wusage before it finishes.

What can I do to make wusage less resource intensive, aside from upgrading the server? I am already running the program at the slowest time during the night. Ideally, I would want the server load to never exceed 1.

NVB,
try this:

man nice

man renice

I believe you can tame wusage to your liking using these :D

I tried using the command renice +20 -p ####
The nice value of wusage changed as indicated by 'top', but this did not appear to help my resource problem. Wusage still brought the server load to more than 3 for a long period of time. I had to kill the process before it finished.

In config, turn off quarterly, yearly, and summary stats. That should help a lot.

- John C.

I turned off the summary reports you recommended, as well as the majority of the stat features, since I do not even look at most of the results. This sped things up a lot and greatly reduced the server load. I suspect that one of the key statistics was referring URL by document. This statistic lists the top referring pages for all of the 1000's of pages on my web site. The list ends up taking serveral MB's.