high load- can't find the cause

Hello,

i have a high load evry day on a red hat server and i can't find the cause, here is the result:


14:13:21 up 5 days, 18:42, 1 user, load average: 27.26, 15.38, 6.81
320 processes: 308 sleeping, 8 running, 3 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 14.6% user 4.0% system 1.2% nice 0.0% iowait 79.9% idle
Mem: 996872k av, 973496k used, 23376k free, 0k shrd, 49436k buff
586476k actv, 128392k in_d, 14420k in_c
Swap: 2096376k av, 367080k used, 1729296k free 196704k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
32033 mailnull 15 0 492 248 164 S 99.9 0.0 0:03 0 exim
16532 root 15 0 7512 104 68 S 4.6 0.0 6:15 0 httpd
3478 mysql 15 0 32680 15M 1468 S 3.7 1.5 5:12 0 mysqld
6380 mysql 19 0 0 0 0 Z 3.7 0.0 0:00 0 mysqld <defunct>
6388 adminit 20 0 1252 1252 800 R 2.7 0.1 0:00 0 top
306 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.9 0.0 0:05 0 kjournald
3278 root 15 0 288 100 60 S 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 sshd
5998 nobody 15 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 httpd <defunct>
6378 mysql 19 0 0 0 0 Z 0.9 0.0 0:00 0 mysqld <defunct>
1 root 15 0 112 80 56 S 0.0 0.0 0:13 0 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:08 0 keventd
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
10 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:53 0 kswapd
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand/DMA
8 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 18:13 0 kscand/Normal
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 4:40 0 kscand/HighMem
11 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kupdated
12 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
23 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
24 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
25 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
26 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
27 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
28 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 raid1d
29 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:06 0 kjournald
84 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
221 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:52 0 kjournald
307 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:30 0 kjournald
308 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 2:27 0 kjournald
354 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 knodemgrd
554 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 eth0
773 root 15 0 228 200 144 S 0.0 0.0 0:36 0 syslogd
777 root 15 0 128 116 72 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd
3265 named 25 0 12472 7900 740 S 0.0 0.7 3:14 0 named
3292 root 15 0 364 292 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 xinetd
3301 root 15 0 620 564 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 0 antirelayd
3333 root 15 0 624 564 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 0 antirelayd
3351 root 16 0 17072 764 528 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 0 spamd
3360 root 15 0 112 88 36 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
3375 root 25 0 168 4 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mysqld_safe
3620 root 15 0 180 160 84 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 pure-ftpd
3627 root 15 0 76 24 20 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 pure-authd
3833 mailman 15 0 3028 812 248 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2
3835 mailman 15 0 2992 628 212 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 python2
3837 mailman 15 0 3024 852 248 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2
3838 mailman 15 0 3508 888 248 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2
3840 mailman 15 0 3064 896 248 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2
3841 mailman 15 0 3600 956 252 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2
3842 mailman 15 0 3516 856 248 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 python2

 

 

 

 

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