Stop/Disable AUDITD on RHEL7

I am running RHEL 7 Server so that I can also run Red Hat Satellite. I seem to be having resource contention problems and auditd is a part of the problem consuming up to 22.0% according to results of the *top* command. I have: 1. executed a *systemctl disable auditd; systemctl stop auditd* (with an error about dependencies) 2. executed a *service auditd stop (*and the service stops but doesn't not remain stopped). 3. Rebooting the machine after the *systemctl disable auditd *also didn't have any effect. I did set -e 1 in the audit.rules file so that I could stop the auditd on my demand, but the service restarts anyway. Thanks for your help in advance. -------------------------- Warron French