this is one possible cause as I had mentioned before.scottwilkerson wrote:One thing worth pointing out, you said this is a VM, if you have over-provisioned your VM's all with a large amount of CPUs this can make the hypervisor spend a considerable amount of CPU resources just determining which processor to run each operation on.
When you add new times it does take a fair bit more processing for a short period to get the items all added and in the database and the monitoring engine must be restarted each time you finish a configuration wizard.
The processing of this has been sped up considerably in 5.7.3 which was just released today, I would highly recommend updating to that version