title: High CPU usage 130% of a CPU for fail2ban due to epoch datetime retrieval errors
body: <p>Persistent overseas network attacks being performed on my system without my permission inclined me to install fail2ban since cphulkd does not ban ips. I am monitoring a few services for unwelcome penetration attempts. Once the service was started, I noticed it was using extremely high CPU resources. 22 emails after the startup discloses that the SSH server jail is stopped and started.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my fail2ban.conf
  <a href="http://pastebin.com/ptCLmpqm" rel="noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/ptCLmpqm</a></p>
  
  <p>my jail.conf
  <a href="http://pastebin.com/KDdmTSCL" rel="noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/KDdmTSCL</a>
  note my email are obscured for obvious security &amp; spam reasons</p>
  
  <p>fail2ban log
  pastebin(dot)com/rq0cqm9J</p>