init process bug

[Bob]

19432 1732 1188 S    0  0.0   0:00.99 init
running ubuntu 9.10 64 bit it appears the init process is taking way too 
much process and memory top - 08:40:46 up  9:06,  3 users,  load 
average: 1.16, 1.09, 0.89
Tasks: 174 total,   2 running, 172 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 27.6%us,  0.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 71.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   4057176k total,  2254088k used,  1803088k free,   109592k buffers
Swap: 11871992k total,        0k used, 11871992k free,  1157536k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
COMMAND           
29577 bob       20   0 1346m 403m  49m R  100 10.2  47:49.23 
firefox           
 7574 bob       20   0  309m  19m  11m S    5  0.5   0:02.51 
gnome-terminal    
 1944 root      20   0  633m  38m  14m S    3  1.0  17:57.60 
Xorg              
 2194 bob       20   0  384m  93m  21m S    3  2.4   9:32.70 
compiz.real       
 2200 bob       20   0  770m  54m  29m S    2  1.4   6:26.87 
cairo-dock        
 2257 bob       20   0  114m  27m 4548 S    1  0.7   0:45.37 
ubuntuone-syncd   
29488 bob       20   0  736m  70m  28m S    1  1.8   0:17.42 
thunderbird-bin   
 2196 bob       20   0  608m  35m  19m S    0  0.9   0:23.75 
nautilus          
 3645 bob       20   0  720m  53m  19m S    0  1.3   1:47.61 
totem             
 7605 bob       20   0 19132 1368  980 R    0  0.0   0:01.34 
top               
    1 root      20   0 19432 1732 1188 S    0  0.0   0:00.99 
init              
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 
kthreadd          
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 
migration/0       
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 
ksoftirqd/0       
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 
watchdog/0        
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 
migration/1       
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.05 
ksoftirqd/1       
it seems the init process is taking alot from system slows a normally 
decent machine