Airbyte 0.63.13 - High CPU Usage & docker-proxy Overload Even Without Other Projects

[pavankalyan-soulpage]

Hi Airbyte team,

I'm running Airbyte version 0.63.13 via Docker, and I'm experiencing severe performance issues even without running any other projects on the VM.

Issue Summary:
The CPU usage spikes to 100% shortly after startup

Many docker-proxy processes are spawned (over 20)

The load average remains high (>5.0) even when idle

No other workloads (like DFlux) are running — only Airbyte

VS Code Server is occasionally used but not the root cause

VM Environment:

OS: Ubuntu 24.04

vCPUs: 4

RAM: 16 GB

Disk: 125 GB SSD

Docker Version: 27.2.0

Airbyte Version: 0.63.13

Deployment: Docker (not Kubernetes)

Troubleshooting Done:

Checked logs from airbyte-server, airbyte-worker, airbyte-temporal, and airbyte-proxy — no clear error messages

Confirmed that even basic sync jobs or idle time causes high CPU

Confirmed that .vscode-server is not the culprit

Cleaned up old containers, images, and volumes

Static ports are defined in docker-compose to avoid random port binding

Request:

Is this a known performance issue in Airbyte 0.63.13?

Is my VM underpowered, or is there a way to tune Airbyte for low-resource environments?

Any recommended flags/configs to reduce CPU load (e.g., Temporal tuning, worker limits)?

Thanks in advance!