# User profile images loading slowly, failing to load

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-images-loading-slowly-failing-to-load/105595
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-images-loading-slowly-failing-to-load/105595 "2019-01-03T15:54:09Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-images-loading-slowly-failing-to-load/105595/14 "2019-01-03T21:40:22Z")

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High CPU is very unlikely to be Avatar related, there was another change that was committed:

[https://review.discourse.org/t/feature-force-rebake-of-all-posts-with-images/937](https://review.discourse.org/t/feature-force-rebake-of-all-posts-with-images/937)

This can eat up the entire sidekiq queue for a while. It will clear up but depending on your post count it may take a bit.

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