HIGH CPU load...

Im having problems right now with my load being high...

top - 23:08:03 up 2:04, 1 user, load average: 2.18, 3.80, 5.54
Tasks: 86 total, 3 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 88.4% us, 11.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1019428k total, 820188k used, 199240k free, 18800k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 284k used, 2096188k free, 675780k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
31971 apache 25 0 9264 4076 1324 R 42.5 0.4 12:37.49 perl
5467 apache 25 0 9148 4152 1324 R 39.9 0.4 3:09.79 perl
5774 apache 15 0 34260 15m 3584 S 7.0 1.5 0:01.40 httpd
5773 apache 16 0 38436 19m 3708 S 6.6 1.9 0:01.24 httpd
5771 apache 15 0 34192 15m 3536 S 3.0 1.5 0:01.13 httpd
1987 mysql 16 0 35524 16m 2840 S 0.3 1.7 0:00.71 mysqld
5922 root 16 0 3812 956 760 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.45 top


Seem like perl is taking almost all of the CPU... What should i do?

Find out which perl app is causing the problem..

ps xuawww | grep perl

root 29284 0.0 0.0 4580 580 pts/1 S+ 20:08 0:00 grep perl

i get that when i type that command in SSH...

If perl is being run as a cgi, grepping for perl doesn't help.

Jeff