High load issues causing regular performance issues

[K_aneda]

System: Pentium 4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram
OS: RedHat, kernel is 2.4.20-28.9, gcc v3.2.2

Every so often our hosting server seems to take a hit, whether it be the system stops responding or we get symptoms like this:

- existing connections stay active
- any new connections (whether you disconnect and then reconnect, or open an entirely new one) don't get any response from the server

Left it for 10-20 minutes to see if the server would shake itself awake, only after a server reboot does the system pop back up...

After searching through logs, only entries are the following:

[/var/log/secure]:
Mar 1 07:54:35 tier Cp-Wrap[12058]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operations
Mar 1 07:54:35 tier Cp-Wrap[12058]: Pushing "32112 COUNTDBS" to '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/mysqladmin' for UID: 32112
Mar 1 07:54:36 tier Cp-Wrap[12058]: CP-Wrapper terminated without error
Mar 1 07:54:36 tier Cp-Wrap[12063]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operations
Mar 1 07:54:36 tier Cp-Wrap[12063]: Pushing "32112 GETDISK" to '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/mysqladmin' for UID: 32112
Mar 1 07:54:37 tier Cp-Wrap[12063]: CP-Wrapper terminated without error
Mar 1 07:54:37 tier Cp-Wrap[12075]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operations
Mar 1 07:54:37 tier Cp-Wrap[12075]: Pushing "32112 LIST 0 0" to '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/ftpadmin' for UID: 32112
Mar 1 07:54:38 tier Cp-Wrap[12075]: CP-Wrapper terminated without error
Mar 1 07:55:49 tier xinetd[3718]: START: imap pid=12237 from=127.0.0.1
Mar 1 07:56:32 tier Cp-Wrap[13073]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operations
Mar 1 07:56:32 tier Cp-Wrap[13073]: Pushing "32112 NULLIFY 0" to '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/mxadmin' for UID: 32112
Mar 1 07:56:33 tier Cp-Wrap[13073]: CP-Wrapper terminated without error
Mar 1 07:56:33 tier Cp-Wrap[13075]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operations
Mar 1 07:56:33 tier Cp-Wrap[13075]: Pushing "32112 NULLIFY ox-ygen.com 0" to '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/mxadmin' for UID: 32112
Mar 1 07:56:33 tier Cp-Wrap[13075]: CP-Wrapper terminated without error
Mar 1 07:56:33 tier Cp-Wrap[13083]: CP-Wrapper v1.2 resuming normal operation

Now I've searched through the forums and found that cp-wrapper is just a small component in cPanel, someone had a similar issue before hand.

Anyone got an idea, things to look @, or any clues in the right direction?

[Keegan]

Edit, nm, lol didnt mean to bring up an old thread.