Satellite becomes unresponsive after the noon due to long-running and failing CertificateCleanupJob in candlepin

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Issue

Satellite becomes very slow to completely unresponsive after a noon. Some investigation shows it has many pending requests to candlepin that has running CertificateCleanupJob job - see Diagnostic Steps for details.

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Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6.11 or newer

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