No. of tasks running, what's normal?

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Hi, I've copied this from 'Top' on my remote server (CentOS with Cpanel & WHM) via Putty. It's from just now (10.50 AM) so the server isn't loaded like it is in the evening. There seems to be a lot of httpd's running, is this something to worry about?

Code: 
top - 10:48:02 up 12:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.39, 0.51, 0.45
Tasks: 104 total,   1 running, 103 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.7% us,  0.8% sy, 10.0% ni, 87.9% id,  0.6% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  :  0.8% us,  0.9% sy, 15.1% ni, 82.7% id,  0.6% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034416k total,   819320k used,   215096k free,    70468k buffers
Swap:  2096472k total,        0k used,  2096472k free,   530132k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI %CPU    TIME+  %MEM  VIRT  RES  SHR S COMMAND
  
17790 me        19   4    0     0:03.14  6.0 64948  60m 1372 S YaBB.pl
 7227 root       39  19    0    0:07.04  1.5 18988  15m 1784 S cpanellogd
  764 root       16   0    0      0:02.44  0.9 18408 8928  980 S cpsrvd-ssl
 7205 root       18   0    0     0:00.00  0.7 15344 7740  268 S cpdavd
 6847 mysql     22   6    0     0:15.62  0.6 58636 5860 2440 S mysqld
 5057 nobody    19   4    0    1:33.84  0.5 14028 5424 2632 S httpd
 5059 nobody    19   4    0    1:41.78  0.5 14028 5420 2632 S httpd
14186 nobody    20   4    0   0:24.04  0.5 14028 5408 2620 S httpd
 5048 nobody    19   4    0   1:27.62  0.5 14000 5404 2632 S httpd
 5043 nobody    20   4    0   1:37.86  0.5 14028 5396 2620 S httpd
 5044 nobody    19   4    0   1:10.83  0.5 13984 5376 2620 S httpd
 7003 root        20   4    0 183:42.37  0.5 13320 5020 2956 S httpd
 5051 nobody    20   4    0   1:17.30  0.5 14028 5012 2224 S httpd
 5053 nobody    20   4    0   1:16.62  0.5 14028 5000 2224 S httpd
 5054 nobody    20   4    0   1:22.52  0.5 14000 4996 2224 S httpd
 5039 root         28   8    0   0:00.11  0.5  9552 4992 1784 S leechprotect
 5040 nobody    19   4    0   1:22.92  0.5 14008 4992 2224 S httpd
 5041 nobody    19   4    0   1:16.78  0.5 14028 4984 2196 S httpd
 5042 nobody    20   4    0   1:25.49  0.5 13984 4980 2224 S httpd
 5056 nobody    20   4    0   1:13.17  0.5 13984 4980 2224 S httpd
14084 nobody    20   4    0   0:22.40  0.5 14028 4960 2184 S httpd
16927 nobody    20   4    0   0:04.04  0.5 14024 4960 2172 S httpd
17097 nobody    19   4    0   0:13.13  0.5 14024 4956 2172 S httpd
14184 nobody    20   4    0   0:18.69  0.5 13984 4920 2172 S httpd
16901 nobody    19   4    0   0:05.98  0.5 14016 4916 2160 S httpd
16902 nobody    19   4    0   0:04.72  0.5 13988 4916 2168 S httpd
17203 nobody    20   4    0   0:03.06  0.5 14016 4916 2160 S httpd
17271 nobody    20   4    0   0:04.56  0.5 13988 4904 2168 S httpd
16930 nobody    19   4    0   0:05.53  0.5 14000 4900 2180 S httpd
16937 nobody    20   4    0   0:04.06  0.5 14032 4892 2168 S httpd
17727 nobody    20   4    0   0:00.84  0.5 13996 4848 2168 S httpd
17273 nobody    20   4    0   0:01.49  0.4 13740 4592 2132 S httpd
17791 nobody    19   4    0   0:00.73  0.4 13744 4592 2132 S httpd
 6869 root        16   0    0   0:10.08  0.4  9448 4084 1232 S chkservd
 7226 root        16   0    0   0:00.00  0.4  6060 4008 1136 S cpbandwd

Cheers
 
Hi, it's a Xeon with two 3Gig. cpu's.
I've upgraded Apache from Cpanel, and that’s cut down the httpd's running to just a few maximum. I've also trimmed the amount of data on the site. This seems to have helped. I still have a few authdaemond's running so I'll worry about that next.

Cheers

11.48AM today:
Code: 
top - 11:48:51 up 22:06,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.20, 0.17
Tasks:  99 total,   3 running,  96 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  1.3% sy, 16.3% ni, 81.2% id,  1.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034416k total,   787240k used,   247176k free,    89776k buffers
Swap:  2096472k total,        0k used,  2096472k free,   536044k cached
 
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