Sorry for the OT question but I need some assistance ASAP. I have been experiencing high load 3.00 ( .5 is normal ) for 3 days. This is being used as a web server. When I run top I see: 17513 apache 25 0 2504 872 672 R 96.7 0.1 3591m 1 perl 4883 apache 25 0 2528 896 676 R 71.3 0.1 3575m 0 perl So there are two perl processes that are maxing the CPUs. When I run: lsof -i |grep perl I get: perl 4883 apache 3u IPv4 2624 TCP *:http (LISTEN) perl 4883 apache 4u IPv4 2626 TCP *:https (LISTEN) perl 4883 apache 124u IPv4 193039277 TCP onofmydomains.com:56272->ftp.pqa.com:ircd (ESTABLISHED) perl 17513 apache 3u IPv4 2624 TCP *:http (LISTEN) perl 17513 apache 4u IPv4 2626 TCP *:https (LISTEN) perl 17513 apache 124u IPv4 65252685 TCP oneofmydomains.com:60371->chobits.ircrev.com:ircd (ESTABLISHED) So I have a connection to an irc daemon. I have grepped the web content directory for ircd and not found anything. ps -ef |grep ircd gets nothing. I also cant seem to locate a perl script that is causing this. So can anyone offer some help here? How can I check this further. I want to nail down the user ( web user I hope ) that is running this. Thank you Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
