# High CPU usage for process ansible command md and mdx **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 17, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/high-cpu-usage-for-process-ansible-command-md-and-mdx/26313 "2017-12-17T00:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TNK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@TNK](https://forum.ansible.com/u/TNK)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/high-cpu-usage-for-process-ansible-command-md-and-mdx/26313/1 "2017-12-17T00:34:58Z")
Hi, I am new to ansible but and started to have a weird issue with CPU load. I am running on debian 9 with ansible 2.4 from backports (the same issue was on 2.2). This is the load I am getting straight after booting (no playbooks or anything): PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1279 ansible 20 0 381024 11424 5940 S 99.0 0.1 6:08.56 mdx 1278 ansible 20 0 237704 4600 2376 S 98.7 0.1 6:08.92 md There is nothing in log and my playbooks when played are ok (just take forever as the CPU is flt out). I have found various bug reports but none seem to fit the symptoms I am having. The only theory I have is that it might be something in the general config of ansible but so far I haven’t fond anything of interest. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![TNK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@TNK](https://forum.ansible.com/u/TNK)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/high-cpu-usage-for-process-ansible-command-md-and-mdx/26313/2 "2017-12-17T01:19:55Z")
sorry just realised this is a user called ansible rather than process so this is something totally different and unrelated