From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 09:23:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0099B16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB6343FE3 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h9SHN0Gc003959; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)h9SHMxbn013992; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:22:58 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Varshavchick Alexander From: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <5FCA90B6-096B-11D8-8AC4-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Load Average more than 400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:23:02 -0000 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