server getting taken down by too many sleeping processes?

The top readout looks like this;

1394 sleeping processes?

1:24am up 3 days, 14:51, 2 users, load average: 50.59, 36.28, 21.01
1401 processes: 1394 sleeping, 1 running, 6 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.4% user, 6.8% system, 0.0% nice, 88.6% idle
Mem: 1023128K av, 1012580K used, 10548K free, 0K shrd, 39584K buff
Swap: 1052216K av, 482132K used, 570084K free 224876K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
11172 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 3:49 mysqld
11175 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 3:24 mysqld
11176 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
11177 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
11178 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
11179 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
11180 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:03 mysqld
11181 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:03 mysqld
11182 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
11183 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:36 mysqld
24777 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
14582 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:09 mysqld
14821 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:06 mysqld
14901 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
14997 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15018 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15037 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15044 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:01 mysqld
15046 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15051 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15063 mysql 11 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.2 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15066 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15067 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15095 mysql 10 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.1 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15108 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15113 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15117 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15144 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15145 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15151 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15182 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15183 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15219 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15223 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15224 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15237 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15239 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15246 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15249 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15272 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15276 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld
15290 mysql 9 0 46668 27M 1356 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 mysqld

 

 

 

 

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