Good Lord man, am I seeing those numbers correctly?

For one thing, vBulletin is resource-hungry. I personally would go with
phpBB3. I've had a few hundred people logged into phpBB3 and my memory
usage hasn't gone above 400MB, with Apache Hello
>
> I have this question postet on vbulletin.com but i have only a anwser for
> mysql and not for php or php5-cgi
>
> top says this
>
> Cpu(s): 63.2%us, 14.8%sy, 0.2%ni, 21.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si,
> 0.0%st
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2261 mysql 15 -5 218m 94m 5364 S 61 4.7 119:27.98 mysqld
> 7529 www-data 20 0 169m 24m 11m R 25 1.2 0:17.98 php5-cgi
> 7533 www-data 20 0 164m 15m 7808 S 25 0.8 0:14.86 php5-cgi
> 7528 www-data 20 0 166m 20m 10m S 23 1.0 0:18.72 php5-cgi
> 7525 www-data 20 0 166m 20m 10m S 22 1.0 0:21.54 php5-cgi
>
>
> and i think this is high server load for 50 user logged into vbulletin
> board..
>
> i will upgrade my mysql and php..
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2188,2205#msg-2205
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