Load is raising!

[noneto]

My serverload is raising from 6.0 to 8.0

Same problem as this topic:
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5998&highlight=load

My uptime:
23:21:01 up 11 days, 9:18, 1 user, load average: 8.00, 7.94, 7.38


My top:

top - 23:21:51 up 11 days,  9:19,  1 user,  load average: 8.00, 7.95, 7.41
Tasks: 154 total,   1 running, 153 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    452140k total,   330932k used,   121208k free,    27752k buffers
Swap:  1048816k total,     2576k used,  1046240k free,   188716k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12989 root      16   0  2780  960 1620 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.13 top
    1 root      16   0  2640  456 1316 S  0.0  0.1   0:05.08 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.09 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0
    6 root      13 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    5 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
    7 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.05 pdflush
    8 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.58 pdflush
   10 root      15 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
    9 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.29 kswapd0
  114 root      22   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  148 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:25.05 kjournald
 1456 root      16   0  2812  588 1296 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.63 syslogd
 1460 root      16   0  2176  456 1244 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.02 klogd
 1551 root      16   0  2896  760 1368 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 smartd
 1560 root      18   0  1836  464 1236 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 acpid
 1604 root      16   0  2360  896 1684 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 xinetd
 1613 root      16   0  2568  956 2236 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.06 da-popb4smtp
 1622 nobody    16   0  4292 1048 3856 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.64 directadmin
 1636 mail      16   0  7632 1904 6244 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.18 exim
 1697 ftp       16   0  2260 1172 1748 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.44 proftpd
 1707 root      16   0  1676  560 1364 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.13 vm-pop3d
 1727 root      16   0  2328  652 1356 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.67 crond
 1735 root      18   0  4788 1016 3948 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 mysqld_safe
 1766 daemon    16   0  2488  564 1348 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 atd
 1772 mysql     16   0 32444 9.8m 3912 S  0.0  2.2   0:02.20 mysqld
 1782 root      16   0  2712  344 1292 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mdadm
 1799 root      17   0  3072  284 1232 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mingetty
 1800 root      17   0  3356  284 1232 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mingetty
 1801 root      17   0  2092  284 1232 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mingetty
 1802 root      18   0  2392  284 1232 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mingetty
 1803 root      18   0  2348  284 1232 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mingetty

Anybody? Load is raising

 

[v8rik]

when you do a top also try SHIFT P (processes ordered by power consumption) or a SHIFT T (processes order by the time the process is active)

also try ps aux to see the proces status

a lot of the time a cgi process is the problem