Ouch! CPU states: 39.6% user, 60.3% system

hello, my top tells me:

load average: 2.80, 2.89, 2.97
113 processes: 107 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 42.2% user, 57.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 247480K av, 237784K used, 9696K free, 72K shrd, 64920K buff
Swap: 1020088K av, 7008K used, 1013080K free 60808K cached


I can't understand what is eating up my entire cpu.... at least I know what is eating so much ram.


Here are the only cpu eating processes running (output from webmin):

18.0 % /usr/libexec/webmin/proc/index_cpu.cgi
7.0 % ps -eo user,ruser,group,rgroup,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu,vsz,nice,e ...
1.8 % supervise qmail-send
1.0 % sh -c ps -eo user,ruser,group,rgroup,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu,vsz, ...
1 root 0.5 % init
user200 0.3 % proftpd: user200- 212.88.176.76: IDLE
0.2 % /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail

even If I logout from webmin TOP goes on telling me an extreme high cpu usage (nearly 100%).


I do not know where to start looking. I know that my apache needs some tweaking coz there are lots of modules loaded (every apache process eats nearly 40mb of ram, but it seems they do not eat any cpu (at least webmin or top does not tell me)).

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

 

 

 

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