Thanks for your comments.
Regardless of how the agent will run in the LXC container, the host server itself is experiencing the high CPU load. We'll open a ticket for that specifically.
Our security group is insisting on having the cortex agent installed on every server - unfortunately we have a number of servers running as containers. Since the LXC container processes are just isolated by namespace while sharing the host kernel, and the host sees all these processes anyhow, I agree that the agent probably shouldn't be running in an LXC container at all.
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