Really weird server spike

Hello,

I have a dual 3.40ghz processor and every few minutes the server load shoots up from .35 to like 11 something.

I had somebody take a look at it and they said that it has something to do with the IOwait.

When I take a look at the cpu usage, this is always there:

Top Process %CPU 11.9 /bin/sh ./configure --with-apxs/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --prefix/usr/local --with-xml --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-ftp --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir/usr/local --with-png-dir/usr --with-xpm-dir/usr/X11R6 --with-mcrypt --enable-magic-quotes --with-mysqli --with-mysql/usr --enable-discard-path --with-pear --enable-sockets --enable-track-vars --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf --enable-versioning --with-zlib

 

 

 

 

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