natalie 🥼 null on Nostr: can any mastodon admins explain why i see traffic like this from mastodon to my ...

can any mastodon admins explain why i see traffic like this from mastodon to my database server

the same pattern does not seem to be reflected in actual db operations

i believe i have confirmed it is not related to media cache cleanup, but i'm not sure if there is some other periodic task that would explain this...