snmpd strangeness

[John Almberg]

I just noticed something odd and am looking for ideas...

As you can see from the top snippet below, snmpd is getting hammered  
by something. As a comparison, the load averages for this quad-core   
box are usually close to zero.

I'm not even sure I'm using snmpd for anything... not even sure what  
it is, precisely.

I'm digging into docs at the moment, but any ideas much appreciated.

-- John


last pid: 38974;  load averages:  1.24,  1.40,  1.58
342 processes: 6 running, 336 sleeping
CPU states: 13.7% user,  0.0% nice, 13.9% system,  0.3% interrupt,  
72.1% idle
Mem: 5997M Active, 596M Inact, 420M Wired, 206M Cache, 214M Buf, 457M  
Free
Swap: 16G Total, 123M Used, 16G Free

   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU  
COMMAND
45136 root        1 104    0  2636M  2621M CPU5   4 254.1H 103.91% snmpd
37368 www         1  20    0   193M 46232K lockf  6   0:05  3.91% httpd
38819 identry     1 -32    0  7688K  2648K CPU0   0   0:02  1.61% top