heavy load

[Gerd König]

Hi,

this morning our database server is running under heavy load.
This means, the command "uptime" shows something like:

.... load average: 3.36, 3.03, 2.57

Until yesterday evening everything worked fine, means
a load of about 1.40.

What we've done yesterday late in the evening was a
"update statistics *", but this should increase the performance,
not decrease !?

On this server only SapDB(7.3.0.34) is running and owns the resources,
the devspaces are filled with 68% data.

Do we have to do something additional after "update statistics",
or where can this heavy load come from ???


any help appreciated

GERD KÖNIG