# Occasionally very high CPU load

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/occasionally-very-high-cpu-load/385336
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/occasionally-very-high-cpu-load/385336 "2025-10-11T18:55:09Z")
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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/occasionally-very-high-cpu-load/385336/3 "2025-10-11T19:01:10Z")

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> [@GeorgSeifert](#):
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> Anyone has an idea what could cause this?

Can you run `htop` or similar on the server, to identify the process name which is causing the high CPU load?

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