Yes, the system was being bogged down by all the clamscan and spamassassin that was held up in the queue. It took about an hour to clear up after fixing my botched upgrade.
Now the top looks like this:
Code:
Tasks: 96 total, 1 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2053692k total, 1164096k used, 889596k free, 104548k buffers
Swap: 3903784k total, 13448k used, 3890336k free, 175404k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 2632 560 476 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.61 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
84 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
87 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
122 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
121 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 kswapd0
707 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod
2932 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.15 reiserfs/0
3109 root 16 -4 4784 600 492 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 udevd
4843 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event
6317 root 16 0 3288 1292 556 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid
6332 syslog 16 0 7080 776 612 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.58 syslogd
6349 root 17 0 2628 428 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 dd
6351 klog 16 0 4088 1996 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 klogd
6364 messageb 16 0 8412 1108 932 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dbus-daemon
6377 hal 16 0 17040 3956 1664 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.23 hald
6382 hal 18 0 6040 656 544 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi
6390 hal 17 0 6044 688 572 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.65 hald-addon-stor
6437 root 17 0 3852 524 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
Thanks for the help!
Mel