Perl process eating cpu

[Daemon1]

32051 nobody 15 0 2224 1868 640 R 16.7 0.1 17244m 0 perl
3590 named 24 0 16340 11M 920 S 8.9 1.1 4997m 0 named
7790 root 25 0 3664 320 152 R 1.3 0.0 6494m 0 cpanelsync
6753 nobody 25 0 1944 980 408 R 1.3 0.0 207:54 0 perl
24287 nobody 25 0 720 720 228 R 1.3 0.0 12:01 0 perl
24297 nobody 25 0 724 724 228 R 1.3 0.0 12:00 0 perl
24298 nobody 25 0 724 724 228 R 1.3 0.0 12:00 0 perl
24320 nobody 25 0 720 720 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:59 0 perl
24321 nobody 25 0 720 720 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:59 0 perl
24322 nobody 25 0 724 724 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:59 0 perl
24323 nobody 25 0 720 720 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:59 0 perl
24369 nobody 25 0 724 392 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:56 0 perl
24373 nobody 25 0 724 392 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:55 0 perl
24380 nobody 25 0 728 396 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:56 0 perl
24401 nobody 25 0 700 700 204 R 1.3 0.0 11:54 0 perl
24405 nobody 25 0 696 644 204 R 1.3 0.0 11:54 0 perl
24409 nobody 25 0 700 384 204 R 1.3 0.0 11:52 0 perl
24416 nobody 25 0 724 576 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:54 0 perl
24443 nobody 25 0 720 388 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:53 0 perl
24444 nobody 25 0 720 600 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:53 0 perl
24527 nobody 25 0 720 644 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:47 0 perl
24528 nobody 25 0 724 396 228 R 1.3 0.0 11:49 0 perl

I keep getting all of these killing all of the cpu; would it be safe to kill the process

32051 nobody 15 0 2224 1868 640 R 16.7 0.1 17244m 0 perl

What could be causing this? Thanks!

[chirpy]

When you use top press c to find out which perl script is being executed, or use the following using the PID:

lsof -p PID