[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk eating CPU

[Script Head]

I have asterisk running user a user/group asterisk/asterisk like so

su - asterisk safe_asterisk

and one the processes utilizes way more CPU than any other. According
to htop, it used 7:59:XX of CPU time. Once I kill asterisk and
restart, another process does the same thing while others are running
smoothly. This doesn't look like standard behavior to me. Is this some
sort of a master process?