Hi I have the same problem, because my server carry maybe 50 wordpress installations, the automatic updates for plugins and wordpress is run via Cron, and it is making my server load extremely high, even freeze and need a hard reboot at times…
My server support told me that was the problem, but they would not help me solve it since thats not part of the support service!
Is it really not possible to kill og disable these cron jobs? I am no wizard so I thought I would ask in here…
Regards Mysik