> Source: [sk183885](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk183885)

# sk183885 - CPD process consumes CPU at very high level on the Standby ClusterXL Member

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk183885 |
| Date Created | 2025-09-11 |
| Last Modified | 2025-09-19 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82, R81.20, R81.10 (EOS) |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * On the Standby ClusterXL Member, the output of the "`top`" commands shows that the processes "`cpd`" and "`scrubd`" consume CPU at very high level.

  Example:

  ```
  
    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ P COMMAND
  84278 admin     20   0 1224148 1.090g  18476 S  99.7  0.9   3845:59 scrubd
  95778 admin     20   0 457240  165920  56108 R  99.0  0.1   4148:06 cpd
  ```

* On the Standby ClusterXL Member, the `$CPDIR/log/cpd.elg` contains these lines:

  `[CPD <PID>]@<HostName>[<Date Time>] Warning:cp_timed_blocker_handler: A handler [XXX] blocked for 3 seconds.`  
  `
  [CPD <PID>]@<HostName>[<Date Time>] Warning:cp_timed_blocker_handler: Handler info: Library [/opt/CPsuite-R82/fw1/lib/libclusterSync_addon.so], Function offset [0xaac0].`
* On the Standby ClusterXL Member, the size of `$FWDIR/conf/scrub_db.sqlite` file is greater than on the Active ClusterXL Member.

* Restarting the CPD process on the Standby ClusterXL Member does not resolve the issue.

## Cause

On the Standby ClusterXL Member, a large number of stale entries accumulated in the Threat Extraction "scrub_db.sqlite" database.

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