On my client's Joomla instance, we are seeing 4 requests PER SECOND in our Apache logs from the CRON element in your component. This is completely consuming our server's resources, and causing High CPU Usage for which we have to pay extra. We are on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) R5a.Large server with 2 CPUs and 8 GB of memory (basically a huge server), yet it's running above 90% at all times. These are just 4 seconds of the log entries.
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:40 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:41 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:41 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:42 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:42 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:42 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:42 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:42 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:43 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:43 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
52.39.27.191 - - [31/Jan/2021:04:34:43 +0000] "GET /index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=cron HTTP/1.1" 200 573
We have eliminated all other possibilities (representing 20 hours of research) to determine the cause. Please explain how we can terminate this constant querying so that usage goes back to normal.
Toolie