very high cpu percentage

I am receiving erroneous cpu percentages on a system that has this configuration, this happens on every cycle – could somebody help me out.

address@hidden ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-rel*

CentOS release 4.3 (Final)

address@hidden ~]$ uname -a

Linux lhummer 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL #1 Wed May 24 07:40:56 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

address@hidden ~]$ monit -V

This is monit version 4.8.1

Monit.conf

set daemon 120

set logfile /var/log/monit

set eventqueue

set httpd port 2813 and

check system myhost.mydomain.tld

if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert

if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert

if memory usage > 75% then alert

if cpu usage (user) > 70% then alert

if cpu usage (system) > 70% then alert

if cpu usage (wait) > 20% then alert

check process httpd with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid

start program = "/etc/init.d/httpd start"

stop program = "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"

if cpu > 60% for 2 cycles then alert

if cpu > 80% for 5 cycles then restart

if totalmem > 200.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart

if children > 250 then restart

if loadavg(5min) greater than 10 for 8 cycles then stop

if failed host localhost port 80 protocol http

and request "/bb/bb.html"

then restart

include /etc/monit.d/*.conf

email messages

Resource limit matched Service myhost.mydomain.tld

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:20:54 -0500

Action: alert

Host: lhummer

Description: 'myhost.mydomain.tld' cpu user usage of 687.8% matches resource limit [cpu user usage>70.0%]

Your faithful employee,