New server up for tweaking
 

<div>1. Dedicated
2.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 4Gb
Disk: I belive it's a 500Gb SATA. No raid arrays
OS: CentOS 5.3 (64 Bit)
Apache: 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP: 5.2.9
mySQL: 5.0.81-community

3. 3.6.8 Patched

4.

5. Compiled with WHM

6. Code:
top - 16:37:24 up 1 day, 20:27, 1 user, load average: 0.45, 0.51, 0.44
Tasks: 207 total, 2 running, 204 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.4%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4051552k total, 3934864k used, 116688k free, 45028k buffers
Swap: 8193140k total, 19576k used, 8173564k free, 3078908k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26716 mysql 15 0 396m 87m 5476 S 12.0 2.2 18:01.50 mysqld
30075 nobody 15 0 143m 15m 8828 S 9.6 0.4 0:00.52 httpd
30191 nobody 15 0 141m 14m 8324 S 8.3 0.4 0:00.26 httpd
30338 nobody 15 0 141m 14m 8540 S 3.3 0.4 0:00.10 httpd
28617 nobody 16 0 143m 15m 8588 S 1.7 0.4 0:00.27 httpd
29691 nobody 15 0 141m 14m 7872 S 1.7 0.4 0:00.13 httpd
30074 nobody 16 0 140m 12m 6968 S 1.3 0.3 0:00.12 httpd
30063 nobody 16 0 140m 12m 6904 S 0.7 0.3 0:00.02 httpd
26109 root 15 0 92308 3392 2644 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.18 sshd
29578 nobody 16 0 142m 15m 8376 R 0.3 0.4 0:00.27 httpd
30253 root 15 0 12736 1160 808 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.05 top
1 root 15 0 10344 636 544 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.32 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.33 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
Code:
top - 16:38:18 up 1 day, 20:28, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.46, 0.43
Tasks: 225 total, 2 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu0 : 5.6%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 2.0%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 4.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 13.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4051552k total, 3929876k used, 121676k free, 45224k buffers
Swap: 8193140k total, 19576k used, 8173564k free, 3080108k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30582 nobody 16 0 146m 18m 7968 S 8.6 0.5 0:00.26 httpd
26716 mysql 15 0 396m 87m 5476 S 7.3 2.2 18:04.85 mysqld
30547 nobody 16 0 144m 15m 6832 R 4.7 0.4 0:00.14 httpd
30512 nobody 15 0 148m 21m 9680 S 4.3 0.5 0:00.37 httpd
30626 root 15 0 12736 1176 812 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.04 top
29677 nobody 15 0 149m 21m 9892 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.69 httpd
30536 nobody 15 0 141m 14m 8344 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.28 httpd
1 root 15 0 10344 636 544 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.32 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.33 migration/1
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
7.

[mysqld]
set-variable = max_connections=500
safe-show-database


8. <div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"> Code:
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| auto_increment_increment | 1 |
| auto_increment_offset | 1 |
| automatic_sp_privileges | ON |
| back_log | 50 |
| basedir | / |
| binlog_cache_size | 32768 |
| bulk_insert_buffer_size | 8388608 |
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |
| completion_type | 0 |
| concurrent_insert | 1 |
| connect_timeout | 10 |
| datadir | /var/lib/mysql/ |
| date_format | %Y-%m-%d |
| datetime_format | %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s |
| default_week_format | 0 |
| delay_key_write | ON |
| delayed_insert_limit | 100 |
| delayed_insert_timeout | 300 |
| delayed_queue_size | 1000 |
| div_precision_increment | 4 |
| keep_files_on_create | OFF |
| engine_condition_pushdown | OFF |
| expire_logs_days | 0 |
| flush | OFF |
| flush_time | 0 |
| ft_boolean_syntax | + ->