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I'm seeing piles of "find" processes in my Nagios XI server.

The number varies but it goes between around 10 and 100 and seems to happen frequently. They are all being run by user nagios. It's a 2 vCPU virtual machine and seems to be averaging a load of around 84 percent all the time.

Any idea what could be going on?

on further searching the issue seems to be too many files in /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe/ directory. So many that "ls" doesn't even return.

I'm waiting for "rm -vf" to return anything, but it also is just sitting there, so I assume there are many many files.

deleting everything in /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe/ and the perfdata directory fixed this.

For future reference, I recommend checking a couple of past posts here: viewtopic.php?t=34321 and viewtopic.php?p=87131.

It is possible that your XI host is undersized for the load it is handling.