High Load No Reason -- Look This Please!

hi,
i have some high load on a server without any reason. the top shoe this below.
does someon ehave any suggestion where look what caused this high load?
Could it be that this is comming from mysql? I have 1 restart from MySQL (via SIM) when the server crashed. Are there any mysql logs avaiable to check what happens?


Thanks a lot
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16:18:57 up 2 days, 22:33, 1 user, load average: 28.41, 16.94, 7.76
308 processes: 287 sleeping, 4 running, 17 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 4.5% 4.1% 3.1% 0.5% 1.1% 86.3% 0.0%
Mem: 971644k av, 556380k used, 415264k free, 0k shrd, 18264k buff
346612k active, 57332k inactive
Swap: 1959920k av, 230196k used, 1729724k free 77932k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
11728 mailnull 16 0 6624 1668 6172 S 4.1 0.1 0:01 0 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q60m
27453 root 20 4 22768 5776 9848 S N 3.3 0.5 0:50 0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
19037 root 17 0 5420 1268 4920 R 1.3 0.1 0:01 0 top
19936 anuserna 24 8 10124 3360 7744 S N 0.5 0.3 0:00 0 cppop - serving 81.000.000.000 - AUTHORIZATION
19629 otherus 23 8 10128 3788 7744 S N 0.3 0.3 0:00 0 cppop - serving 194.000.000.000 - TRANSACTION - user@domai
5 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.1 0.0 0:33 0 kblockd/0
2903 root 23 8 10108 2452 7744 S N 0.1 0.2 2:55 0 cppop - accepting on port 110
11810 root 15 0 29412 4348 3764 S 0.1 0.4 0:11 0 spamd child
11811 root 17 0 24892 3620 3764 S 0.1 0.3 0:02 0 spamd child
1 root 16 0 1544 472 1384 S 0.0 0.0 0:07 0 init [3]
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 events/0
4 root 9 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khelper
32 root 15 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 aio/0
31 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:04 0 kswapd0
616 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kseriod
681 root 15 0 0 0 0 DW 0.0 0.0 1:16 0 kjournald
1236 root 19 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald
1237 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:12 0 kjournald
1248 root 0 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 loop0
1249 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald
2030 root 15 0 1600 560 1432 D 0.0 0.0 0:49 0 syslogd -m 0
2034 root 16 0 1548 500 1380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd -x
2045 named 16 0 49980 19M 4792 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 0 /usr/sbin/named -u named
2054 root 20 4 3672 788 3452 S N 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /usr/sbin/sshd
2072 root 16 0 2156 724 1820 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
2091 root 16 0 12344 928 5840 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 chkservd
2228 root 24 8 6932 796 6504 S N 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 pure-ftpd (SERVER)
2231 root 15 0 6676 588 6332 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /usr/sbin/pure-authd -s /var/run/ftpd.sock -r /usr/sbin/pu
2240 root 16 0 1592 580 1428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
2252 root 18 0 5336 552 5144 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pi
2877 root 34 19 14640 1020 3420 S N 0.0 0.1 16:21 0 cpanellogd - sleeping for logs
2987 root 18 0 1536 380 1372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /sbin/mingetty tty1
2988 root 18 0 1536 380 1372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /sbin/mingetty tty2
2989 root 18 0 1536 380 1372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 /sbin/mingetty tty3

 

 

 

 

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