Load Average more than 400

[Charles Swiger]

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?

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-Chuck