I was using the 6.3.3 version of Splunk with the Cloud Services v2.0.2 addon. After noticing that the CPU usage spiking terribly, I upgraded Splunk to the latest version - yet still the same. splunkd.exe and python.exe seems to be spawning all over the place. As of now, the Cloud Services add-on remains disabled. -- Using a VM (vmWare) with 8GB RAM. Only PingFederate addon was enabled. ... View more

I'm having the same issue. The moment I disabled the add-on, CPU usage comes back to normal. Once I enabled it, it jumps straight to 100% and stays there. Never even started to configure anything yet having this CPU usage issue. Could anyone shed some light on this? ... View more