# Auditbeat 7.17.8 high cpu usage during data transfer with system socket dataset

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-7-17-8-high-cpu-usage-during-data-transfer-with-system-socket-dataset/323540>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [January 19, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-7-17-8-high-cpu-usage-during-data-transfer-with-system-socket-dataset/323540 "2023-01-19T19:10:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![opoplawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opoplawski/32/40442_2.png) [@opoplawski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opoplawski)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-7-17-8-high-cpu-usage-during-data-transfer-with-system-socket-dataset/323540/1 "2023-01-19T19:10:19Z")

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I'm running auditbeat-7.17.8-1.x86\_64 on AlmaLinux release 8.7 on one of our file servers. I just noticed that while running an rsync transfer to that machine auditbeat is consuming between 100-200% cpu. It is not outputting very many events and /var/log/audit/audit.log is pretty quiet so it does not seem directly related to that.

Disabling the system socket dataset seems to have resolved the issue. I see a bug report for an issue in that code that was fixed in 7.8.1, but a few people have commented seeing issues with large network traffic after that: [Auditbeat 7.7.x Poor Performance: 100%+ CPU Usage with System Module Socket Dataset Enabled · Issue #19141 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/19141#issuecomment-728950911)

I'm transferring data over a 40G infiniband connection and using raid arrays, so I imagine the traffic is pretty substantial. Is this just to be expected or can we reduce the load from auditbeat somehow and still capture some of this info?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-7-17-8-high-cpu-usage-during-data-transfer-with-system-socket-dataset/323540/2 "2023-02-16T21:11:10Z")

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