PHP5-CGI & CPU Load

[okercho]

Hi!

Yesterday, about 23.00 my server hungs. Today, it hungs again about the same hour.
I have my ISPCP server virtualized with VmWare Server, and I can restar it without problem, but today I have a TOP open in a ssh window, and I see a 98.00 CPU Load (Incredible!) and a lot of php5-cgi process open.

This afternoon, when I open a webpage, I see a high load in WA (disk access) and webs loads slowly, but before yesterday, I never see this problem (I'm using this server for 3 months without problem until yesterday).

Any Ideas?

I'm trying to attach a top capture, but I can't

[Mastacheata]

Sounds like a php script gone wild.
As you are using fcgi every user should run its own php process and therefore it might be very easy to identify which user and which script is running mad there.

Try finding out which php process causes the extreme cpu load and then you could look at the parameters of this special php-fcgi process for identifying the script with the error.
It's highly unlikely that there's something wrong with php itself.