This definitely looks weird to me.

12:55:10 up 1 day, 8:50, 1 user, load average: 83.15, 82.67, 76.66

vmstat:

1 0 337164 102136 83284 471952 13 17 239 225 171 139 3 1 7 89
0 0 337164 102136 83284 471952 0 0 0 0 110 27 0 0 0 100
0 0 337164 102136 83284 471952 0 0 0 312 129 40 0 0 0 100

top:
169 processes: 166 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 99.4%
Mem: 1011368k av, 935592k used, 75776k free, 0k shrd, 83372k buff
704288k actv, 136060k in_d, 16276k in_c
Swap: 1052248k av, 337376k used, 714872k free 473980k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2200 root 15 0 6596 6464 3760 S 11.7 0.6 9:37 0 httpd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.1 0.0 0:04 0 kscand
2150 mailnull 15 0 544 280 200 S 0.1 0.0 0:02 0 exim
4016 mysql 15 0 3948 3948 1388 S 0.1 0.3 0:00 0 mysqld


Websites load fast. Any idea why the load shows that? :confused:

12:55:10 up 1 day, 8:50, 1 user, load average: 83.15, 82.67, 76.66
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did you try to reboot ? . or is your server being updated?
because i never seen such high loads :(

even better what are your server specs?

cpu speed/ram etc..

Xlusive

That's a client's server.

XP 2400+ 1GB RAM.

Do you have rkhunter installed ?

Please have a detailed look on this issue as it's looks very odd to have these loads without processes shown in top consuming it.

Also please check these places for any scripts installed

/tmp
/var/tmp
/dev/shm
/usr/local/apache/proxy
/var/spool/mail
/var/spool/vbox

Hope this helps.

Nothing obvious in there though.

You need catch use process which eat resource (top and ps) and setup limits for it.