Top Command - Suggestions Please

Below is the results of what came up when I ran TOP on my dedicated server. Can somebody tell me if any of these services are not necessary? I would like to stop anything that I don't really need.

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PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 2515 root      11   0  1928 1884  1428 S     0.3  6.5   0:00 sshd
 2572 root      16   0  1048 1048   836 R     0.1  3.6   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0   120   72    72 S     0.0  0.2   0:05 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kapm-idled
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kreclaimd
    7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
    8 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdated
    9 root      -1 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 mdrecoveryd
   13 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:01 kjournald
   88 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 khubd
  180 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kjournald
  605 root       9   0   212  156   156 S     0.0  0.5   0:00 syslogd
  610 root       9   0   652    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 klogd
  684 root       9   0   176    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 safe_mysqld
  764 mysql      9   0   484   28    28 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mysqld
  782 root       8   0    60    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 apmd
  815 mysql      9   0   484   28    28 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mysqld
  816 mysql      9   0   484   28    28 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mysqld
  840 root       9   0   404  296   264 S     0.0  1.0   0:04 sshd
  873 root       9   0   448  328   284 S     0.0  1.1   0:00 xinetd
  897 root       8   0   852   76    60 S     0.0  0.2   0:00 httpd
  913 nobody     9   0  2280 1864  1604 S     0.0  6.4   0:00 httpd
  914 nobody     9   0  1996 1568  1544 S     0.0  5.4   0:00 httpd
  915 nobody     9   0  2132 1680  1468 S     0.0  5.8   0:00 httpd
  916 nobody     9   0  2296 1888  1616 S     0.0  6.5   0:00 httpd
  917 nobody     9   0  2112 1704  1588 S     0.0  5.9   0:00 httpd
  942 root       9   0   828  368   316 S     0.0  1.2   0:00 sendmail
  961 root       9   0   212  116   104 S     0.0  0.4   0:00 cucipop
  991 root       8   0   156  108    88 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 crond
 1039 daemon     9   0   100   44    44 S     0.0  0.1   0:00 atd
 1049 root       8   0  3780 1628  1216 S     0.0  5.6   0:01 miniserv.pl
 1053 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1054 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1055 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1056 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1057 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1058 root       9   0    64    4     4 S     0.0  0.0   0:00 mingetty
 1113 nobody     9   0  2300 1888  1728 S     0.0  6.5   0:00 httpd
 1209 nobody     9   0  2052 1616  1576 S     0.0  5.6   0:00 httpd
 1216 nobody     9   0  2312 1900  1604 S     0.0  6.6   0:00 httpd
 1220 nobody     9   0  2112 1696  1588 S     0.0  5.8   0:00 httpd
 1221 nobody     9   0  2120 1704  1592 S     0.0  5.9   0:00 httpd
 2516 website    9   0  1268 1268   996 S     0.0  4.4   0:00 bash
 2544 root       9   0     0    0     0 Z     0.0  0.0   0:00 cucipop <defunct>
 2546 root      10   0  1016 1016   828 S     0.0  3.5   0:00 su
 2547 root      10   0  1408 1408  1044 S     0.0  4.8   0:00 bash
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


JTM

 

 

 

 

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