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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:22:58 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
Cc:        Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Load Average more than 400
Message-ID:  <5FCA90B6-096B-11D8-8AC4-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0310281957280.20944@apache.metrocom.ru>

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On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> can you please hint as what parameters I have monitor to find the 
> cause of
> sudden splashes of load of a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE server? This box is
> acting as a database/mysql server and periodically goes up to 400 of 
> load
> average values and then gradually returns to a normal 4-5 value.

What does "ps auxw" look like when you have this load spike?

-- 
-Chuck



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