constant high load on a compute

Issue

• Is this load increase caused by VNF VMs or the host itself?

# uptime 
 07:46:36 up 224 days,  3:55,  1 user,  load average: 45.58, 46.70, 47.09

• There's a bunch of processes such as these:

root     1037563  0.0  0.0  64460  3528 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1038595  0.0  0.0 121832  1656 ?        S     2019   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1038596  0.0  0.0  64460  3524 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1038980  0.0  0.0 121832  1660 ?        S     2019   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1038981  0.0  0.0  64460  3544 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1039160  0.0  0.0 121832  1652 ?        S    Jan18   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1039161  0.0  0.0  64460  3544 ?        S    Jan18   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1039723  0.0  0.0 121832  1656 ?        S     2019   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1039724  0.0  0.0  64460  3528 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1041414  0.0  0.0 121832  1656 ?        S    Jan07   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1041415  0.0  0.0  64460  3524 ?        S    Jan07   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1046648  0.0  0.0 121832  1656 ?        S     2019   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1046649  0.0  0.0  64460  3532 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext
root     1048077  0.0  0.0 121832  1656 ?        S     2019   0:00 sh -c /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch '-m' '-LLL' '-s' 'base' '-b' '' '-r' 'configurationNamingContext' 2>&1
root     1048078  0.0  0.0  64460  3532 ?        S     2019   0:00 /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/ldapsearch -m -LLL -s base -b  -r configurationNamingContext