How to recognize attack?

During last 3 days got very big server load; about 50-60 all the time. But top command do not show processes with such a big load. I cant imagine what could it be. Server is very, very slow... How to recognize attack?

Is there any way to know is it attack or just an internal server problem?

Last rootkit and rkhunter check showed no errors.

Please, advise guys.

Thank you!

Here is top -c output:
Code:
 09:11:48  up  2:30,  1 user,  load average: 98.50, 116.23, 91.73
453 processes: 449 sleeping, 1 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   7.1% user   7.4% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  85.3% idle
Mem:   514196k av,  509776k used,    4420k free,       0k shrd,    4700k buff
       251792k active,             207424k inactive
Swap: 2104504k av,  865584k used, 1238920k free                   27368k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
14016 root       9   0  4956 3528  3480 S     5.9  0.6   5:29   0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
18263 root      14   0  1528 1528   868 R     4.9  0.2   0:01   0 top -c
 4653 root      16   0  4076 2208  1312 S     1.3  0.4   0:45   0 perl ./read-data.pl start system
    5 root      11   0     0    0     0 SW    0.8  0.0   0:40   0 kswapd
 4102 mysql     10   0 63324  26M 18168 D     0.5  5.2   1:16   0 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/
18196 ofp        9   0  3136 3136  1304 D     0.3  0.6   0:00   0 /usr/bin/perl coranto.cgi
    1 root       8   0   472  444   424 S     0.0  0.0   0:05   0 init [3]       
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 keventd
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kapmd
    4 root      18  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bdflush
    7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kupdated
    8 root     18446744073709551615 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mdrecoveryd
   61 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khubd
  275 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  276 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  277 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  278 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.0  0.0   0:01   0 kjournald
  279 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  280 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
  761 root       9   0   556  520   484 D     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 syslogd -m 0
  765 root       9   0   420  368   368 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 klogd -x
 3618 root       9   0  1116  900   900 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 /bin/bash
 3621 root       9   0  1116  896   896 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 /usr/sbin/sshd
 3635 root       8   0   680  536   536 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
 3653 root       9   0  2400 1112  1112 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 chkservd
 3748 root       8   0   576  552   508 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 crond
 3842 named      9   0  1932 1172  1076 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 /usr/sbin/named -u named
 3961 root       9   0  1544 1148  1120 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 cupsd
 3964 root       9   0  3444 1228  1080 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 cppop - accepting on port 110
 4047 root       9   0  1124  964   964 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/server1.flash
 4320 root       9   0  3824 1844  1728 S     0.0  0.3   0:00   0 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/cpanel/bin/eximstats
 4327 root      18  19 12508 3764  3752 D N   0.0  0.7   0:05   0 cpanellogd - scanning logs
 4336 root       9   0  3540 1176   992 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 cppop - accepting on port 110
 4379 root       8   0  1152  940   940 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 pure-ftpd (SERVER)                                                                           
 4382 root       8   0   944  776   776 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 /usr/sbin/pure-authd -s /var/run/ftpd.sock -r /usr/sbin/pureauth
 4386 cpanel     9   0  1200  940   940 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 /usr/bin/stunnel-4.04local /usr/local/cpanel/etc/stunnel/default/stunnel.conf
 4403 mailman    9   0  3996 1248  1248 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start

 

 

 

 

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