High load average (FC5)

[Jeffrey Ross]

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