Issue Hourly cron for Plesk Email Security (email-security/scripts/update-stats.php') generates increased CPU usage after Plesk update to 18.0.74 # 3

[mcac]

Server operating system version

AlmaLinux 8.10

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.74 #3

Hello,
Two days ago, I updated Plesk on two Linux servers to Plesk 18.0.74 #3 during the day. The following night, the two servers started to generate high CPU usage by mariadb every hour. In the processes, I saw that emailsecurity is responsible for this. The cron job starts every hour and generates high utilisation for about 30 minutes or more every hour. The websites are still accessible as normal. Has anyone else had similar problems?

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hi, @mcac . Our team is currently reviewing the case. I will follow-up with more details as soon as possible. For the time being, what you can do is manually kill the process:

ps auxf | grep update-stats.php
kill -9 PID

 

[mcac]

Thank you very much for your reply. I have now temporarily changed the cron job from hourly to daily. It will now run once a day at night until a solution is found.