first a database error, then everything's ok
 

As the title said, I received a 'database error' screen while browsing my forum. The internet at my job can sometimes be a pain so I was hoping that had something to do with it. I tried browsing the forum about 30 seconds later and everything was fine.....and has been fine ever since. I didnt think anything about it but when I logged into the admincp, I noticed the load averages:

6.44 21.32 36.58

I dont know much about this but I do know these numbers depend on a lot of different factors. As I'm typing this, my averages are now:

2.73 10.64 27.61


So it's dropping but how can I find out why the load was so high? I'm sure that had to do with the db error I received. My forum is not big so there may have been 2 or 3 people on it at the time.

ideas?

I'm disabling some mods right now to make sure thats not causing the issue.