I don't think you want that value set so high, the description of nifi.bored.yield.duration is: When a processor has no work to do (i.e., is "bored"), this is the amount of time it will wait before checking to see if it has data to work on. This way, it does not use up CPU resources by checking for new work too often. When setting this property, be aware that it could add extra latency for processors that constantly have work to do, as they will always wait this amount of time before checking for more work. The default value is 10 millis. Setting that to 30 minutes impacts all processors on your flow. You could change the scheduling of GetFile from 0 sec to 1 or 2 seconds and that would save a lot of executions/CPU. ... View more