Server Keeps Dying

The server is a duron 1 ghz running redhat 7.3, and is dying in the middle of a gzip -d function to unzip a 2 GB backup. This is the top output:

1:11pm up 8:18, 2 users, load average: 3.81, 1.77, 0.68
36 processes: 33 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 17.8% user, 33.8% system, 0.0% nice, 48.4% idle
Mem: 247492K av, 244228K used, 3264K free, 0K shrd, 51088K buff
Swap: 2096472K av, 0K used, 2096472K free 172300K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1790 root 20 0 556 556 392 R 49.5 0.2 1:03 gzip
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 DW 0.5 0.0 0:00 kjournald
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.3 0.0 0:01 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 DW 0.3 0.0 0:00 bdflush
1698 root 15 0 1896 1896 1604 R 0.1 0.7 0:00 sshd
1 root 15 0 476 476 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:05 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
133 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald
469 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 eth0
568 root 15 0 540 540 452 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 syslogd
573 root 15 0 440 440 380 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 klogd
593 rpc 16 0 536 536 456 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 portmap
621 rpcuser 18 0 704 704 608 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 rpc.statd


Does anyone know what it could be?

 

 

 

 

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