[ale] interrupt numbers

[Mike Harrison]

> That's what I'm investigating now. When the IO counts starts to climb,
> it stays high and never retreats. The load holds steady around 4 and
> multiple db SELECT and INSERT calls pause until the max concurrent
> connections is reached then stuff starts dropping off. It is still
> doing inserts but very very slowly.

I missed the first few posts, but assuming this is MySQL,
my first thoughts are: Maybe you should be running Innodb,
and you should make sure you have proper indexes.

Hoping that was not too far off target, and ducking if it is.. ;)