High CPU usage for process ansible command md and mdx

[TNK]

Hi, I am new to ansible but and started to have a weird issue with CPU load.

I am running on debian 9 with ansible 2.4 from backports (the same issue was on 2.2). This is the load I am getting straight after booting (no playbooks or anything):

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND

 1279 ansible   20   0  381024  11424   5940 S  99.0  0.1   6:08.56 mdx

 1278 ansible   20   0  237704   4600   2376 S  98.7  0.1   6:08.92 md

There is nothing in log and my playbooks when played are ok (just take forever as the CPU is flt out).

I have found various bug reports but none seem to fit the symptoms I am having. The only theory I have is that it might be something in the general config of ansible but so far I haven't fond anything of interest.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[TNK]

sorry just realised this is a user called ansible rather than process so this is something totally different and unrelated