resource hog?

[Raphael Bauduin]

HEre is a copy/paste of a top command when sudo was used:

49 processes: 46 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 38.3% user, 61.6% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  127120K av, 104772K used,  22348K free,  22512K shrd,  21220K buff

Swap: 128516K av,  11300K used, 117216K free                 59608K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
COMMAND

24617 root      16   0   792  792   652 R       0 99.2  0.6   1:02 sudo
24677 root       2   0  1320 1320   704 R       0  0.5  1.0   0:00 top
24370 root       0   0 11636 7476  2108 S       0  0.1  5.8  21:44
XF86_SVGA
    1 root       0   0   168  124   100 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:09 init

Is it normal sudo uses so much resource?

Raph