[help-beg] something is suddenly eating up my memory and cpu usage

Heya People,

I am running a server with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, 2GB RAM and 2x160gb hds with RAID1 (mirroring).

Yesterday one of my HDs died, so switched disks and replaced the broken one, everything went back to work. I contacted support and they ran RAID sync, after 2 hours told me process done so I put my sites back up. Ever since the server is working EXTREMELY slow, I already gave it 2-3 resets.

Check out the following Plesk (yeah I use it, yiked) stats:
CPU Usage
Last 1 minute 25.04
Last 5 minutes 28.40
Last 15 minutes 26.86

Memory Usage:
Total: 1.92 GB
Used: 1.88 GB
Usage: 97.84%

Swap usage:
Total: 1.00 GB
Used: 296.00 KB
Usage: 0.03%

I am clueless about what it is. after I reset the server it takes it about 10 minutes to get into a very similar stage (killing CPU usage, Mem usage, and very low swap usage).

I ran
Code: 
ps -e -o rss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW$COLUMNS
here are the last several lines of the output:
Code: 
20220 /usr/sbin/httpd
20344 /usr/sbin/httpd
20928 /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser --daemonize --helper-home-dir=/var/qmail
20936 /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser --daemonize --helper-home-dir=/var/qmail
21392 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m5 -H
21552 /usr/sbin/httpd
23300 /usr/sbin/httpd
23388 /usr/sbin/httpd
23672 /usr/sbin/httpd
26076 /usr/sbin/httpd
27780 /usr/sbin/httpd
119248 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=
Anyone has any idea what happened? the my.cnf file is the same one I used before when the server worked perfectly fine (will quote it if u wish).

Thank You,
- Ben

 

 

 

 

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