What do you suppose the problem is. I understand that the problem is caused by a high load, but this type of problem should never happen no matter what the load is. I would rather the server shut asterisk down before allowing it to connect multiple people to a conf. Do you know where in the code the problem exists, or why the problem exists?
Current load right now is 0.95. The spike yesterday was 14. I normally get nervous when I see it get close the 3.
This is a dell pe1750. 2.4Ghz Xeon, w/ 2G ram. There were about 10 agents logged in during the spike. The heaviest processes where apache, asterisk, and AST_update.pl.
We started building a new server this morning so that we can push apache off as soon as possible. MySQL was moved off a while ago to box with more hd space.