Hi

The following is the load of the database server during peak hours. Is this consider high? How to reduce the load? Please advice. Thanks!

Load averages: 13.55, 13.00, 11.34
248 processes: 211 sleeping, 37 running
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 15.35 75.2% 0.0% 24.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 11.76 81.0% 0.0% 19.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
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avg 13.55 78.0% 0.0% 22.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Memory: 356504K (270360K) real, 332748K (261540K) virtual, 1250248K free Page#
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