CPU Utilization high for sleeping processes
There is no correlation between CPU usage as reported by top
and process state. The man page says (emphasis mine):
%CPU -- CPU usage
The task's share of the elapsed CPU time since the last screen update, expressed as a percentage of total CPU time.
So, your process indeed used a huge amount of processor time since the last screen update. It is sleeping, yes, but that's because the currently running process is top
itself (which makes sense, since it's currently updating the screen).
The top
output is perfectly normal.
The load average calculations include processes that are waiting on something (mutexes/futexes, IO etc) as well as processes that are actually using the CPU. Test it by, say, running something like:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null
and watching top output to see what happens. It will increase the load average by 1.
If you look at this line:
Cpu(s): 8.1%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
the "id" in "91.8%id" means "idle". So the CPU isn't actually doing much at all.