New system, higher active connections?

[H. Wade Minter]

We just moved our primary load balancer from an ancient Dell PowerApp  
120 running Red Hat 7.3 to a newer Dell PowerEdge 750 running Fedora  
Core 5.  However, we're noticing something weird.

Where before, we were seeing Active Connections in the 1-4 range even  
during normal usage, we're now seeing them in the 12-16 range on  
average.  We've got the same weighting on the new server as we did on  
the old.

Does anyone have any ideas why we might be seeing such a jump on this  
newer system?

Thanks,
Wade