So use a different system
> b) small scripts, that reads very much data and does nothing with it.
> this creates huge load averages with 93% idle : no matter how good your
> scsi hardware is, people always need more io than you can provide.
Supporting mod_perl and fast_cgi can help here because the cgi's can remain
running with their data in memory rather than continually creating processes.
> i solved a) with a writing a sheduler on my own (time is not given to
> processes, but to users. if you have many tasks, they all slow down. only
> tasks are affected, that have use my new scheduler (will not affect root,
> apache ...). patch available on demand).
That would be interesting to see.