Constantly growing system CPU usage on FTP/SFTP server running vsftpd service

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why is the FTP/SFTP server running the vsftpd service on RHEL 8 constantly consuming more and more CPU?
  • The same setup on RHEL 6 work did not exhibit this performance problem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and later

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