[WBEL-users] High loads of CPU all of a sudden

[Jerry Amundson]

On Tue August 29 2006 02:21, Alon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm runnig WB3.0 Respin 3 on a DELL 1850 PE machine.
> I have a single website that was running fine till few days ago.
> I'm getting high CPU loads randomly and I can't figure out what is
> the cause. I didn't detect any attacks from outside of the server, so
> this is of course confusing.
>
> I decided to look into the File system as a possible problem area.
> I tried to run fsck and got the following:
>
>
> / # fsck
> fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> /dev/sda2 is mounted.
>
> WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
> SEVERE filesystem damage.
>
> Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes
>
> Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
> fsck.ext3: Invalid argument while checking ext3 journal for /
>
> / #
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------------------------------------- After running this
> and getting the error above,. I can't go anywhere: See the following
> lines that came right after I ran the fsck:
>
>
>
> / # mount
> -bash: mount: command not found
>
> / # su -
> su: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> / # whoami
> -bash: whoami: command not found
>
> / # uptime
> -bash: /usr/bin/uptime: No such file or directory
>
> / # cd
>
> /root # whoami
> -bash: whoami: command not found
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Now that can't be good.
>
> Any suggestions? pointers?
> I have a live production server running,.. but I'm scared if
> something will happen to it. I can format a new server and transfer
> all the data over, but do I need do this?

Yes. 

jerry