Overload on Server error. Help!

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The review of this web host was started by buddhalabs on 2009-03-20 20:33:17:

I am a newbie to server admin and I have an issue on my dedicated server. I got an email with the message below. The tech at my hosting company told me to perform the fix suggested in the error. Problem is I SSHed into my server using putty and then vi, but I don’t know what to do from there. I dont know how to get to that file to modify it or even how to modify it. Can someone help me with this?

[statscheck] Stats/Server Overload on host.mydomainname.com
This is cPanel stats runner on host.mydomainname.com!
While processing the log files for user sevenw, the cpu has been
maxed out for more than a 6 hour period. The current load/uptime line on the server at the time of this email is
01:03:21 up 31 days, 22:47, 0 users, load average: 4.02, 4.17, 4.30
You should check the server to see why the load is so high and take
steps to lower the load. If you want stats to continue to run even with a high load; Edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config and change extracpus to a number larger then 0 (run /usr/local/cpanel/startup afterwards to pickup the changes).

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