is this normal?

[dominet]

| 5264 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 227 | | |
| 5268 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 241 | | |
| 5459 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 186 | | |
| 5609 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 143 | | |
| 5755 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 62 | | |
| 5806 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 88 | | |
| 5821 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 71 | | |
| 5861 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 60 | | |
| 5896 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 55 | | |
| 5944 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 32 | | |
| 5951 | njdevsc_boards | localhost | njdevsc_phpbb | Sleep | 25 | | |

my box is very slow..and high load.

 

[feanor]

Sleeping processes.... usually not the culprit for a high load.
R U sure there isn't a large query process occuring against a big db? Or a ton of users hitting a smaller database on a site that gets tremendous traffic?

Your mysqladmin process list should show this- that is, a query against a DB, it should stand out from the other sleeping processes easily.

Or perhaps your load spike is caused by something else entirely?