Unusually high CPU Usage

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This is cPanel cpuwatch on xxx.xxx***********!
While processing, the cpu has been
maxed out for more than a 6 hour period. The current load/uptime line on the server at the time of this email is
07:00:10 up 5 days, 18:31, 0 users, load average: 2.18, 2.29, 2.33
You should check the server to see why the load is so high and take steps to lower the load. If you want stats to continue to run even with a high load; Edit /var/cpanel/cpanel.config and change extracpus to a number larger then 0 (run /usr/local/cpanel/startup afterwards to pickup the changes).
I am getting this message from my server lately, and when I go to WHM > CPU/Memory/MySQL Usage, it says that user "nobody" is using 122.96% CPU. The top process for this user is "usr"

When I go to the commandline and type the command "ps -aexu", it shows the following 2 processes (among many other small ones) which look rather high -
Code: 
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
nobody   24683 65.0  0.5  7324 2868 ?        R    Mar21 666:50 usr
nobody    1149 49.5  0.5  7332 2892 ?        R    01:22 338:37 /usr/bin/sys
There is almost nothing else happening on the server.

Does anyone know what these processes could be, or how I could identify them? I am not aware of any process "usr" (I know there is a directory with that name)

Thanks,
Matt

 

 

 

 

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