High Processes, Low Server load = problem

Hi, the problem I am having: usually high # of process (eg 400+) with mostly sleeping (say 398), low server load (1+ which is considered low) but very long loading times for my websites. Can anyone offer any direction for solution? thanks.

to add, I get a lot of these than usual in Cpanel Apache status:

242-6 10333 0/21/280 R 0.29 3 2 0.0 0.29 0.99 ? ? ..reading..
239-6 10332 0/33/282 R 0.59 1 3 0.0 0.30 1.41 ? ? ..reading..
240-6 9853 0/10/209 R 0.06 247 2 0.0 0.01 0.32 ? ? ..reading..
232-6 10435 0/12/311 R 0.21 4 9 0.0 0.04 0.58 ? ? ..reading..
226-6 9858 0/40/236 R 0.34 103 16 0.0 0.05 0.38 ? ? ..reading..
217-6 10467 0/5/351 R 0.02 2 9 0.0 0.00 0.66 ? ? ..reading..
170-6 9811 0/10/209 R 0.20 269 8 0.0 0.03 0.41 ? ? ..reading..
171-6 10399 0/22/270 R 0.23 2 310 0.0 0.02 1.44 ? ? ..reading..
165-6 10474 0/2/300 R 0.00 8 6 0.0 0.000 0.89 ? ? ..reading..
166-6 10389 0/18/316 R 0.40 3 15 0.0 0.03 0.94 ? ? ..reading..
137-6 10420 0/13/263 R 0.30 9 9 0.0 0.03 1.56 ? ? ..reading..
138-6 10432 0/14/264 R 0.07 2 11 0.0 0.01 1.25 ? ? ..reading..

and status at that time:

Current Time: Thursday, 18-Nov-2004 10:21:50 PST
Restart Time: Thursday, 18-Nov-2004 10:07:06 PST
Parent Server Generation: 6
Server uptime: 14 minutes 44 seconds
Total accesses: 66309 - Total Traffic: 239.3 MB
CPU Usage: u65.22 s9.42 cu.11 cs.05 - 8.46% CPU load
75 requests/sec - 277.2 kB/second - 3784 B/request
135 requests currently being processed, 108 idle servers

I hope the information is enough. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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