# Slow Database

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [January 19, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/slow-database/529651 "2020-01-19T18:25:51Z")\
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Hmm… I don’t think it’s CPU bound though unless sqlite is running single threaded maybe? Though sqlite could run multithreaded.

My install runs on a Ubuntu VM. It runs on top of ESXi 6.5. The server has dual XeonE5-2620, with a total of 12 cores between both CPU’s. Hyperthreaded ESXi has 24vcpu’s, all of which have been given to to the PlexVM. There are no other VM’s on the box.

When I look at CPU utilization even with heavy use, I never see above 10% utilization since I have a P2000 for hardware encoding.

So if it is cpu bound,I think it would have to do more with sqlite being single threaded and tying up a specific CPU.

Thoughts?

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