# Server Performance Issues Due to High CPU Usage

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-performance-issues-due-to-high-cpu-usage/333279
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 29, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-performance-issues-due-to-high-cpu-usage/333279 "2024-10-29T00:02:14Z")
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### Author: ![chulapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@chulapo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chulapo)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-performance-issues-due-to-high-cpu-usage/333279/6 "2025-02-23T21:27:36Z")

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We have identified the issue. It was caused by the `Discourse reactions like sync` setting. I don’t know if there is a way to avoid it other than disabling it.

> [@Reaction like sync issues](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reaction-like-sync-issues/317584/5):
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> I don’t know if you were able to fix it, but in our case we also have a lot of posts and likes. For now, we have opted to disable the Discourse reactions like sync because it was causing those CPU peaks every 60 minutes and a lot of 502 errors.

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