Centos when copying old files and restarting it seems load everything fine and then says [FAILED] with no log or other message.
service restart named
named [FAILED]
Check more thoroughly you may have missed the error if you have lots of zones!
service named restart|grep error
zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.
zone 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: no........
mod_status is a great way to track down the source of high CPU usage and to find what vhost/script is the cause of it.
It gives you a live view of bandwith usage, CPU usage, and memory usage broken down by domain/vhost and script/URI.
Enable mod_status
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
ExtendedStatus On
SetHandler server-status
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
All........