Maxed OUT 40Threads. unknown cause

[MysticDev-Josh]

I am all of a sudden having my box maxing out my CPUs and when looking at TOP it is showing this.
What would be the cause and how do I fix this issue?
Thank you for the help.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

many pveproxy workers could point to a few issues:
* you or someone are running many queries against the API, which need those resources (check /var/log/pveproxy/access.log for activity)
* something is not running correctly - in that case check the system journal (`journalctl --since 2021-01-09` for the log since 09.01.2021)
* just in case also check `dmesg` for messages from the kernel


I hope this helps!