Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:32:27 -0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>, Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Load Average more than 400 Message-ID: <200310281828.24343.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0310281957280.20944@apache.metrocom.ru> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0310281957280.20944@apache.metrocom.ru>
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On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:05, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: > Hi gurus, > > 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. The > server is a dual Xeon with 4G phisical memory, mysql 4.0.7/linuxthreads. > During the highest load, the amount of Inact memory remains of about 2G, > and swap is used only minimally, so this cannot be the case. There are no > messages in a system log or mysql log. > > Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks is advance Watch your top (or ps -ax) output. Anything odd there? Daniela
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