Aide process taking high CPU usage

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Issue

  • Aide process taking high CPU usage
top - 11:40:11 up 14 days, 11:28,  1 user,  load average: 3.74, 4.58, 4.29
Tasks: 287 total,   1 running, 286 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 24.3%us,  5.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 52.4%id, 17.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  77477108k total, 77069028k used,   408080k free,   884204k buffers
Swap:  4194300k total,   253668k used,  3940632k free, 71537072k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
23252 root      20   0  670m 638m  15m D 73.3  0.8 372:21.03 aide
 3167 tns       20   0 2182m 499m 8928 S 60.4  0.7 163:34.15 httpd
 3166 tns       20   0 2182m 487m 8840 S 44.5  0.6 105:33.30 httpd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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