# Vaultwarden continually spawning new processes

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**Created:** [August 10, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/vaultwarden-continually-spawning-new-processes/5082 "2026-08-10T13:13:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 10, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/vaultwarden-continually-spawning-new-processes/5082/1 "2026-08-10T13:13:47Z")

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I am running Vaultwarden in Docker on a Raspberry Pi 4B on Raspberry Pi OS 13.6 ‘trixie’ (arm64), behind an nginx reverse proxy. Is it normal for Vaultwarden to be continually spawning new processes/threads/workers and terminating them? I only noticed this behaviour today when I was upgrading Docker and it had restarted Vaultwarden with a curiously high PID count. I opened up `htop` to see Vaultwarden processes starting and terminating every couple seconds. I only have 3 users accessing Vaultwarden sporadically (a couple times a day).

I am running the `latest` image (`sha256:ebdfe7070...`). I don’t believe this had happened in previous versions of Vaultwarden, but I haven’t looked too closely.

Here’s a `diff` of running `pstree -p` twice, 30 seconds apart. You can see (at least) 1 `/vaultwarden` thread had terminated and 1 started.

```auto
--- pstree.a 2026-08-10 10:53:56.906447952 +0000
+++ pstree.b 2026-08-10 10:54:26.794184569 +0000
@@ -76,23 +76,23 @@
            |-containerd-shim(1770206)-+-vaultwarden(1770297)-+-{vaultwarden}(1770513)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770514)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770516)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770555)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770556)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770557)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770563)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1770567)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1772678)
- | | |-{vaultwarden}(1780176)
            | | |-{vaultwarden}(1780349)
- | | `-{vaultwarden}(1780524)
+ | | |-{vaultwarden}(1780524)
+ | | `-{vaultwarden}(1780768)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770212)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770213)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770214)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770215)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770216)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770233)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770235)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770236)
            | |-{containerd-shim}(1770242)
            | `-{containerd-shim}(1771038)

```

Any insight on whether this is normal will be appreciated. Thanks for your assistance!