System load average is high - email takes most of it o-o

SkyPoweR

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Hey guys!
I'm having some trouble with my webserver, I get lots of emails to my email about high system load and it freaks me out.
when I check the ticket I just see this:
One Minute - 11.88
Five Minutes - 11.12
Fifteen Minutes - 10.13

top - 19:27:03 up 23:34, 0 users, load average: 11.88, 11.12, 10.13
Tasks: 134 total, 9 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 24.4%us, 5.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 4.0%id, 65.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3145728k total, 3133164k used, 12564k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 1048576k total, 525668k used, 522908k free, 2211340k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
902 mysql 20 0 393m 140m 5072 S 17.4 4.6 398:28.25 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/server.coi.li.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/server.coi.li.pid
17101 ****** 20 0 71952 32m 8984 R 12.1 1.1 0:42.77 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="x@y" -d open_basedir="/home/******/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php54/lib/php/" -d mail.log="/home/******/.php/php-mail.log"
4543 root 20 0 255m 75m 4088 R 10.4 2.4 6:15.41 clamscan -r --move=/tmp/infected /home
17105 ****** 20 0 127m 89m 8984 R 10.4 2.9 1:00.29 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="x@y" -d open_basedir="/home/******/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php54/lib/php/" -d mail.log="/home/******/.php/php-mail.log"
20752 **** 20 0 67540 28m 6448 R 10.4 0.9 0:00.32 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="****[email protected]" -d open_basedir="/home/****4/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php54/lib/php/" -d mail.log="/home/****4/.php/php-mail.log"
17092 ****** 20 0 73456 34m 8996 R 8.7 1.1 0:52.33 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="x@y" -d open_basedir="/home/******/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php54/lib/php/" -d mail.log="/home/******/.php/php-mail.log"
17075 ****** 20 0 113m 77m 8984 S 3.5 2.5 1:07.75 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="x@y" -d open_basedir="/home/******/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/php54/lib/php/" -d mail.log="/home/******/.php/php-mail.log"
20680 admin 20 0 49692 10m 6436 S 3.5 0.3 0:00.67 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="[email protected]" -d mail.log="/home/admin/.php/php-mail.log"
20681 admin 20 0 52488 13m 6420 S 3.5 0.4 0:00.79 /usr/local/php54/bin/php-cgi54 -d sendmail_from="[email protected]" -d mail.log="/home/admin/.php/php-mail.log"
16988 apache 20 0 513m 80m 23m S 1.7 2.6 1:06.99 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start -DSSL
1 root 20 0 2900 932 832 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.25 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [kthreadd/148]
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [khelper/148]
143 root 16 -4 2464 264 260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/udevd -d
562 root 20 0 35976 1404 812 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.35 /sbin/rsyslogd -i /var/run/syslogd.pid -c 5
617 root 20 0 4084 812 808 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.32 /usr/sbin/dovecot
640 dovecot 20 0 3936 792 788 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 dovecot/anvil [34 connections]
641 root 20 0 4064 792 788 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 dovecot/log
643 dovecot 20 0 8068 2024 2020 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login
644 dovecot 20 0 8068 2024 2020 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login
645 dovecot 20 0 8068 2024 2020 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login
647 dovecot 20 0 8068 2024 2020 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login
648 dovecot 20 0 8068 2024 2020 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dovecot/pop3-login

How can e-mail be this intensive?
as you see I'm running php on fastcgi mod, I also have Google's mod_pagespped - what do you think about it if we're already talking about it?

Thanks in advance!
 
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