Pia-openvpn dameon cpu usage

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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?

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

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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…