Code:
disable_functions = "fpassthru, crack_check, crack_closedict, crack_getlastmessage, crack_opendict, psockopen, php_ini_scanned_files, hell-exec, system, dl, ctrl_dir, phpini, tmp, safe_mode, systemroot, server_software, get_current_user, HTTP_HOST, php_uname, ini_restore, popen, pclose, exec, shell_exec, suExec, passthru, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, pfsockopen, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, posix_ctermid, posix_getcwd, posix_getegid, posix_geteuid, posix_getgid, posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam, posix_getgroups, posix_getlogin, posix_getpgid, posix_getpgrp, posix_getpid, posix_getppid, posix_getpwnam, posix_getpwuid, posix_getrlimit, posix_getsid, posix_getuid, posix_isatty, posix_setegid, posix_seteuid, posix_setgid, posix_times, posix_ttyname, posix_uname, posix_access, posix_get_last_error, posix_mknod, posix_strerror, posix_initgroups, posix_setsidposix_setuid, show_source, apache_setenv, define_syslog_variables, eval, fp, fput, ftp_connect, ftp_exec, ftp_get, ftp_login, ftp_nb_fput, ftp_put, ftp_raw, ftp_rawlist, highlight_file, ini_alter, ini_get_all, inject_code, openlog, phpAds_remoteInfo, phpAds_XmlRpc, phpAds_xmlrpcDecode, phpAds_xmlrpcEncode, syslog, xmlrpc_entity_decode, ini_set"
now in /etc/my.cnf (this is just mine, which is on a dual Xeon 3.0ghz 4gb ram) Raghav or whomever may need to tweak yours for your specific hardware, but even applying this if you have nothing in your my.cnf will help reduce load averages and (d)dos effects