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plesk_agent_manager high load

pcsousa

New Pleskian
Hello, since yesterday I've seen this process on first position at top using 90 - 98% cpu.
I've already kill it and it back again.

Do you know whatcould this be?

Thank you!

Process:
21759 root 35 10 48840 22m 736 R 93.5 2.3 807:58.61 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager domains-id --owner-uid=9ecexxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx729c --dump-rotation=5 --session- (...)
 
still running:

21759 root 35 10 48840 22m 736 R 94.8 2.3 1072:11 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager domains-id --owner-uid=9ece*729c --dump-rotation=5 --session-
 
Same problem after upgrading from 9.5.2 to 9.5.4

Can somebody tell me exactly what is this "plesk_agent_manager"?

The reason I had a very busy mail server that was running fine for well over a year but after an upgrade to 9.5.4 it has really slowed days. After days of troubleshooting I have finally managed to correlate this process 'plesk_agent_server' with the high CPU.

It seems that this process launches more child processes which combined slows down the server. Please help!

Sub processes command:

14096 /usr/bin/perl /opt/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager server --owner-uid=00000000 ...
14098 /usr/bin/perl /opt/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager server --owner-uid=00000000 ...
14099 /bin/gzip
14100 /usr/bin/perl /opt/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager server --owner-uid=00000000 ...
 
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