Hi. I have a problem in my Ubuntu server. The user www-data is using 100% of the CPU, I tried stopping nginx, but it is still using all the cpu.
I used the “top” command to see what was happening, and I found this.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12718 www-data 39 19 307388 269144 4124 S 99.9 26.7 16:09.42 7
I don’t really know what command “7” is. If I use “htop” the command is shown as “sbin: root@policykit -1/7”
I’m thinking that it is something to do with permissions but I don’t know how to find what it is trying to do.
Thank you!
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Have you checked your mysql.log? I wonder if something is going on with a query being hung.
Also, run ps-axl and see.
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