Suggested template: Problem/Question I am running 2 docker swarms that are both monitored by netdata. I decided to edit the config files in order to reduce the memory footprint. It worked fine on all worker nodes, but the two docker manager nodes showed close to 100% CPU use after the restart. I ed…

Just for appreciation, here a htop output: [netdata htop]

Hey, @Martin_Neumann . The htop output not useful without thread names. And likely duplicate of netdata eating a lot of CPU

alright, what do I need to do to show that?

Yes, deleting the content in the cache folder did resolve the problem for now, but I also lost all historical data. If you give me instructions how to check for the thread name I could check on the other instance whether the cause was the same.

@Martin_Neumann there is a link the that thread, click on “using htop” [image] netdata eating a lot of CPU Help Hey, consider using htop to find out which thread that is. Anyway, I am pretty sure it will be “ACLKSYNC”. That is a bug, we know about it. You can follo…

Alright, I could confirm now that it is ACLKSYNC. Interestingly the problem appeared only on my two manager nodes of the docker swarm. All of worker nodes were updating fine without causing the same problem.

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