LON-CAPA User Help: Can reducing the number of servers in hosts.tab increase efficiency of my server?

<a href="">LON-CAPA User Help</a> : <a href="">Server System Administration</a> :
Can reducing the number of servers in hosts.tab increase efficiency of my server?
    No.  The network connections (lonc/lond) created by hosts.tab place
    a very low load on the server which does not greatly interfere
    with memory usage and the CPU rate.
    
    The only potential efficiency problem that might result is
    the introduction of poorly configured/updated LON-CAPA machines
    in the network (bad lonc/lond software)--causing servers to have
    their Apache web server children wait on various network request
    (the Apache child will go on with life, but it is inefficient
    while it is waiting to timeout the lonc/lond connection).
    
    There is great importance attached to this issue right now.
    
    The research and development arm of LON-CAPA is currently
    implementing these further solutions:
    * lonc/lond connections are dynamically brought up and down
      based off of the timeout field and the maximum number
      of connections fields in hosts.tab
    * the upgrade process will test the lonc/lond layer
    * hosts.tab will be automatically updated and with this
      automatic update, there will be testing of the lonc/lond
      connections


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