Pia-openvpn dameon cpu usage

Hey all - I’ve been using PIA for ages and never had issues. I just set it up on a new VM and during downloads “Open VPN” is using about 40% of the CPU.
I actually have PIA running on another VM with specs equal to a potato and it only hits ~20% during downloads.
Couldn’t find much for fixes other then turning off debug mode, which is off.

Any ideas?

What about WireGuard? So much bloat I’m OpenVPN it’s kind of hard to gauge.

OpenVPN can be a bit piggy, I think.

Right now, pia-openvpnk is grabbing 21%, while downloading at 36 Mbps.

No idea how much of that is actually error correction, but I’ll bet some is, given the poor quality of my ISP…