problem with processes and with hard disk space

hi there
my processes mysteriously eats up a lot of cpu load. my machine gives a load of much higher then 0.05 onwards (even 6.0!!), how do i go about finding out why it keeps happening and stopping it?

also my hard disk is showing 40GB full, but i dont have anyhting near that even. how do i find out what happened?

if anyone would let me know i would be grateful on this. i can be reached by any of the following -
aol - thehooguy
yahoo - n_cable
msn - developerinlondon@hotmail.com
email - admin@bigsiteofhosting.com

many thanks

nayeem

Run 'top' to find out which process eats all the memory or cpu. Once running hit 'M' to sort by memory usage and 'P' by load.

As for the disk space use find (check the man page) to find out which files are big. There's a switch that will only display files that are bigger than X megs. Otherwise use du -h on each directory (top level!) and see which one is bigger and dig your way down.

to your harddrive problem: probably the inodes table is full, thus you get free space on typing "df" but you still cannot write a single byte.

test using "df -i"

not wanting to be rude, but:
for you supplying several addresses to reach you: sorry, you are not that important that i´ll mail you anything directly. come back here and read if you want something from us.