mod_status showing 32k slots

Anyone ever seen this? Server load is higher than I would expect under the current load and when I enabled mod_status to get a snapshot of what the server was doing it's showing 32k (32,768) slots.

server info:
P4 2.8 GHZ - 2 Gig RAM
linux - kernel - 2.4.31
Server Version: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.8 mod_perl/1.27

Apache server config:
Timeout 200
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000

MySQL-
Server version 4.0.17-standard-log
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 1 day 1 hour 25 min 10 sec

top snapshot:
12:29:57 up 3 days, 9:33, 1 user, load average: 4.01, 5.37, 6.09
262 processes: 259 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 79.9% user 2.8% system 0.3% nice 0.0% iowait 16.8% idle
Mem: 2061540k av, 1949936k used, 111604k free, 0k shrd, 70428k buff 345440k active, 597212k inactive
Swap: 2048276k av, 0k used, 2048276k free 872172k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
18131 root 9 0 13256 12M 12800 S 62.6 0.6 40:49 0 httpd
10002 root 17 0 1460 1460 852 R 15.9 0.0 0:00 0 top
12445 mysql 9 0 54628 53M 2164 S 1.6 2.6 3:13 0 mysqld
1627 root 9 0 532 532 520 S 1.0 0.0 0:01 0 vm-pop3d
12321 named 9 0 3208 3208 2172 S 0.6 0.1 1:51 0 named
--snip--

server-status snapshot:
Server Version: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.8 mod_perl/1.27
Server Built: Jul 19 2004 02:28:56
Current Time: Sunday, 05-Jun-2005 11:54:55 EDT
Restart Time: Sunday, 05-Jun-2005 04:12:18 EDT
Parent Server Generation: 9
Server uptime: 7 hours 42 minutes 37 seconds
Total accesses: 652372 - Total Traffic: 6.9 GB
CPU Usage: u1524.66 s39.49 cu39.31 cs1.35 - 5.78% CPU load
23.5 requests/sec - 260.3 kB/second - 11.1 kB/request
211 requests currently being processed, 14 idle servers

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KKKWKKKWKKKK_KKWKKWWKWGKKKKKWKKKWKKKKGKKK_KK_KKKKKK_KKKK_KKKKKKK
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--snip-- continues until 32k slots reached

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

 

 

 

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