Okay, last night, around 2am on one of my servers the cpu usages went up to 100%. When I checked in this morning, I saw 5 php-fpm processes taking up around 100% cpu together. I've rebooted the server, but everytime the server comes back, the php-fpm processes start again and take 100% cpu.
It a Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64) server, I've updated all software and I just can't get any information what's causing this.
Obviously the problem causes the websites hosted on the server to be offline, all the time showing either a 502 Bad Gateway or a 504 Gateway Time-out error...
I'm hoping someone can offer some help in fixing this.
I've got 3 other servers, with the exact same setup who don't have any of these problems.
EDIT 1: When I look at NewRelic, it shows me that around the same time the problems started, there's a huge increase in "Packets per second" in the network tab, That must have something to do with the problem...