We had two major load spikes today; the first was at 12:46pm Pacific, something in our servers borked so we had major getwork latency, up to 10seconds per request for a little bit.
The second was at 2:38pm pacific. About the same load; we did better, latency was maxing at 3.3 seconds. We'll post here when we're ready for round three -- hopefully you all can hammer things a bit more!