Here are the first few lines from top, I should have mentioned that I
had checked it and saw nothing that stood out
top - 17:34:25 up 3 days, 7:43, 7 users, load average: 7.24, 7.32, 7.26
Tasks: 120 total, 1 running, 119 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 451148k total, 412176k used, 38972k free, 12944k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 29264k used, 2067176k free, 102500k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2222 root 15 0 196m 88m 8460 S 0.7 20.1 106:31.47 Xorg
1 root 16 0 1992 620 536 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.62 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.19 ksoftirqd/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 events/0
5 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper