weird problem - server not responding, load rather low

[SoftDux]

Hi all

For some odd reason I noticed that our one cPanel VPS stopped responding, even though the load was low. I could see a few websites, but email, cPanel, WHM, SSL, etc wasn't working.

When I SSH'd into the server, the load average was about 6, dropping down to 0.08 after about two minutes, so this seemed fine.

top - 16:53:15 up 25 days, 8:34, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.19, 0.28
Tasks: 64 total, 1 running, 63 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2061212k total, 1991420k used, 69792k free, 97012k buffers
Swap: 4192956k total, 1704336k used, 2488620k free, 807156k cached

root@gimbli [/home/lordmerlin]# cat /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
107: kmemsize 9259096 18672104 19871360 20158080 0
lockedpages 0 0 256 256 0
privvmpages 85551 256649 256000 256000 668
shmpages 731 4375 21504 21504 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 178 240 240 240 3452
physpages 17973 163710 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 65535 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 46500 199519 26112 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 39 121 360 360 0
numflock 8 64 188 206 0
numpty 1 4 16 16 0
numsiginfo 0 33 256 256 0
tcpsndbuf 134160 767512 1720320 2703360 0
tcprcvbuf 201456 821152 1720320 2703360 0
othersockbuf 46648 1125656 1126080 2097152 330
dgramrcvbuf 0 261800 262144 262144 625
numothersock 38 147 360 360 0
dcachesize 0 0 2273280 2416640 0
numfile 3193 5820 5820 5820 16
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 14 257 4000 4000 6968
root@gimbli [/home/lordmerlin]#

I rebooted the server, and not long after that I noticed it doing the same.

Any suggestions?

[SoftDux]

can someone please help me with this?

[Murtaza_t]

You are almost out of memory:

Mem: 2061212k total, 1991420k used, 69792k free, 97012k buffers

Search this forums on how to deal with such situation.