kylefall on "[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] W3 Cron Jobs Causing CPU Spike?"

I'm having CPU spikes on my VPS.

It seems I randomly disconnect while on the WordPress Add Post page, which causes me to check server load which spikes from 0.4 -> 5 for seemingly no reason.

After inspecting cron jobs and removing what I thought might be the culprit I'm left with almost no other hourly cron jobs than these that apply to W3:

w3_pgcache_prime 900 (15 minutes) [W3TC] Page Cache prime (every 900 seconds)
w3_pgcache_cleanup 3600 (1 hour) [W3TC] Page Cache file GC (every 3600 seconds)
w3_dbcache_cleanup 3600 (1 hour) [W3TC] Database Cache file GC (every 3600 seconds)

Is it possible that these cron jobs are causing a CPU spike on my VPS? If so, what are the most common reasons and how can I fix it. Something is definitely triggering the spike I use a Cloudflare pro account and have very little traffic on my website when this occurs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Generally speaking, the crashes happen at xx:15 -> xx:17 could it be the fact that all three of these processes are firing simultaneously?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/