Load / CPU usage ?

Hi Guys,

This for a of VPS running cP + LSWS ... It has only one WP blog with fairly decent traffic. I moved the site form an other provider to this server yesterday. Have a look at top result.

top - 13:16:41 up 10:30,  3 users,  load average: 9.39, 9.11, 8.94
Tasks: 171 total,  11 running, 160 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 65.6%us, 34.1%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,  0.1%st
Mem:   4937872k total,  1397972k used,  3539900k free,     8256k buffers
Swap:  1048572k total,        0k used,  1048572k free,   327120k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21080 wpdummy  20   0  224m  51m  24m R 64.6  1.1   0:54.06 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20648 wpdummy  20   0  224m  52m  24m R 62.3  1.1  10:20.02 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20536 wpdummy  20   0  230m  58m  24m R 60.0  1.2  14:29.70 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
21000 wpdummy  20   0  216m  43m  24m R 60.0  0.9   1:39.98 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
21001 wpdummy  20   0  226m  54m  24m R 60.0  1.1   1:41.97 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20665 wpdummy  20   0  220m  48m  24m R 57.3  1.0   9:37.91 lsphp5:c_html/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
20895 wpdummy  20   0  223m  51m  24m R 56.3  1.1   4:13.47 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20313 wpdummy  20   0  222m  49m  24m R 55.7  1.0  19:21.45 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20558 wpdummy  20   0  225m  53m  24m R 55.3  1.1  12:35.02 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
20617 wpdummy  20   0  220m  47m  24m R 50.4  1.0  12:30.38 lsphp5:wpdummy/public_html/index.php
19479 nobody     1 -19  120m  10m 1244 S  4.3  0.2   2:38.75 litespeed (lshttpd)
19476 nobody     1 -19 52888 6300  556 S  0.7  0.1   0:01.62 litespeed (lshttpd)

    root@test [~/]# netstat -anp | grep :80 | wc -l
    447

I am not impressed with the performance and the load. Its been around 6-10. The LSWS and MySQL are pretty optimzed. (I have been dong this for a while now)

My question is, why high value of %sy ?? Does that mean the VPS genuinely need more CPU power ??? Or does that indicate the main node is overloaded ??

Or does it give any info at all as to why the load is that high ??

Thanks