High CPU usage after updating to v2023.5.4

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Today I noticed my Home Assistant instance has much higher CPU than usual (~5% previously vs ~45% now) and the increase appears to coincide with the v2023.5.4 update. The high CPU usage has been persistent for the last 48 hours.

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I’ve manually checked all addons and none of them are showing much if any CPU usage. Also, when SSHing into Home Assistant it’s not showing any processes using CPU. I imagine this is because the SSH session is within a container.

Is this a known issue? Are there any other steps I ca take to identify the source of the high CPU load?

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By SSHing into the HA OS and running top I’ve managed to track this issue down to “DNS fallback”.

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I was able to fix it by by following the instructions in this thread and running ha dns options --fallback=false. Things are now back to normal.

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