Re: [tlug] Who is www-data, and why do they want my CPU?

["david.blomberg" <david.blomberg@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 19/03/2008, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:
>
> >  Since then, I've been able to determine that the offending process is
> >  called "www-data". I haven't, however, been able to determine anything
> >  about the timing of when this will happen next or why. All I can say is
> >  that is happens maybe once or twice a week.
>
> The first step is:
>
> sudo find / -follow -type f -name www-data
>
> That'll give you the path of the binary, which you should then feed to
> the appropriate Ubuntu command that tells you which package owns a
> file (Ubuntu users, please chime in with that syntax; I dunno it).
its apache on most debian derivatives including ubuntu--try stopping 
apache and see if that clears it up.
apache2ctl stop