Check the location of your Apache log file, In my case i use C-Panel so my location is
/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log --- full server logs
/home/user/access_logs/userdomain.com --- logs for particular user.
Below commands will be useful for identifying cause of high load on Apache.
cat access_log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n
Generates a list of IP address preceded by the number of times it hit a site.
tail -10000 access_log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n
Generates a list that shows the last 10,000 hits to a site.
awk '{print $7}' access_log|cut -d? -f1|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk1|tail -n10
Generates a list of files or directories on your site being called the most.
for k in `ls -S /home/*/access_logs/*`; do wc -l $k | sort -r -n; done
Generates a list of all traffic for all domains (for multiple domains on a VPS or Dedicated server).
Modify as per your log file location...!!!