# "convert" process eating CPU

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-process-eating-cpu/101309>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-process-eating-cpu/101309 "2018-11-05T14:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![skozz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/skozz/32/119704_2.png) [@skozz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/skozz)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/convert-process-eating-cpu/101309/10 "2019-02-26T11:18:29Z")

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It’s a DO droplet with `4 GB Memory / 60 GB Disk / Ubuntu Discourse on 14.04`

This is the performance of the last 24h.

 ![09](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/7043232144d85f156e3c2646f78e834e93af65b7.png)  
_(those breakdowns are me restarting the server or just the site down when I was not able to restart it)_

> **More performance screenshots with details 📈**
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> ![48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e3b064a823a912e1ebb93b97cd64040611d4d08.png)  
> ![14](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/c/1c9ce872e764e32a861fa7162d89da919e74211f.png)  
> ![38](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/7/b7a1f41fd41a93b622741d2060f59942f21d124d.png)

I would like to mention we’ve never had performance issues (memory and disk) until now with the `convert` process.

> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Change “ `rebake old posts count` ” to 10 or lower to let sidekiq clear the queue and then slowly increase it.

I followed your suggestion and the performance is better (as expected, fewer things to do), but the queue still increasing instead of going to less.

Thanks everyone for your time.

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