# User profile images loading slowly, failing to load

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [03.Январь.2019 15:54:09 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:** ![bartv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bartv/32/130052_2.png) [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [04.Январь.2019 08:52:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-images-loading-slowly-failing-to-load/105595/17 "2019-01-04T08:52:56Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> high CPU usage for a few hours after this upgrade due to image re-optimization.

We have over 500,000 uploaded images that need to be reprocessed, so we’re looking at about 2 months of reprocessing. I’ll need to be very careful when deploying this change, I’m not too excited about it, tbh.

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