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Well the first thing is that you'll need to increase the ram and bump the JVM up to at least 1.5GB. The next step would be to figure out how many transmissions are being sent into your web server. It may be that you need a dedicated web server just for your integration orders. Also how many users are accessing the web server?

Again what is the load number? High to you may not mean high to me and vice versa...anything about a 5 I consider is a bottleneck and something terrible is going on if it is occurring for a prolonged time.