I don'y know what is going on. My dedicated server runs Cent OS 5.6 x86_64. It has been running for over a year pretty well. I also never had any disk failure. (Or I have never knew about any disk failure). The disks are in RAID, so, i'm not sure, but its possible the data center could have replaced a disk without I knowing that.
The fact is that some days ago, strange things started do happen. Server Load gets high, even when there is just a few requests/sec, and some httpd processes eats 100% cpu.
Other times, "top" doesn't show processes causing high server load, but the "Service Status" page on whm, shows high load.
Other thing that happened also, is that the server sometimes looks very slow to access whm or SSH, but I can access the websites hosted on it, and they load pretty fast, like if everything was normal, even with a high load.
Now, the Server Load, is about 40.
One strange thing that I noticed, is the "Blocks Written/Sec"
Blocks Read/sec = 1607.11
Blocks Written/Sec = 11836.01
I think the Blocks Written/Sec is higher then normal. The server hosts a popular photo effects website, so it gets a lot of traffic, but I think its strange...
Apache is optimized, with the same configurations, and the same visitors that the server was before the problems started.
What can be causing this?
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