Syslogd using 80% of the CPU
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Hi,
I just setup a nice pfSense router here at work for our 2 dsl lines. Everything is working like a charm and the internet is even faster then it was before.
There is one problem though and that is syslogd, its eating up around 80% - 90% of my CPU.
I did a search and found this tread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,4094.0.html
I did click on the "Simply click save in the system logging settings tab" that was mentioned but that didn't help at all. Sometimes its so bad that I can't even login useing the gui or ssh.I'm running pfSense-1.2-RC3-Embedded on a FX5620.
Right now I can't give you more info because I can't even ssh into the box.
Does any one have any idea what I can do to fix this problem
Thanks
hamba -
This looks like it fixed it self after a reboot
;DI'll keep an eye out for if it will return
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I had the same problem and I killed the syslog and then restarted it in the shell.
It as running around 95% CPU for almost a day.
Marcel
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I just ran into this same problem… Not sure what's going on. I'm using an Alix board w/ the latest bios and RC4 embedded - Been running great until i noticed this. Crazy thing is it is still really responsive...
last pid: 36905; load averages: 2.20, 2.19, 1.78 up 8+23:01:14 22:48:51 38 processes: 2 running, 34 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU states: 8.1% user, 0.4% nice, 91.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 42M Active, 10M Inact, 17M Wired, 40K Cache, 17M Buf, 173M Free Swap: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 10032 root 1 132 0 1440K 584K RUN 26:57 95.31% syslogd 1809 root 1 4 0 15728K 11132K accept 0:08 0.05% php 406 root 1 96 0 2304K 1856K select 2:53 0.00% openvpn 739 root 1 8 -88 1408K 356K nanslp 1:45 0.00% watchdogd 699 root 1 96 0 5980K 5144K select 0:41 0.00% bsnmpd 551 root 1 4 0 3400K 1532K kqread 0:33 0.00% lighttpd 7582 root 1 -58 0 3848K 1316K bpf 0:10 0.00% tcpdump 7778 _ntp 1 96 0 1340K 640K select 0:06 0.00% ntpd 753 root 1 8 0 1384K 540K nanslp 0:05 0.00% cron 606 root 1 4 0 23340K 19088K accept 0:04 0.00% php 7583 root 1 -8 0 1276K 416K piperd 0:03 0.00% logger 11520 proxy 1 4 20 704K 244K kqread 0:02 0.00% pftpx 10455 proxy 1 4 20 704K 244K kqread 0:02 0.00% pftpx 7723 nobody 1 96 0 1472K 700K select 0:02 0.00% dnsmasq 794 root 1 8 0 1268K 364K nanslp 0:01 0.00% minicron 33466 root 1 8 20 1272K 700K nanslp 0:01 0.00% check_reload_status 7779 root 1 96 0 1376K 596K select 0:01 0.00% ntpd 331 _dhcp 1 96 0 1468K 560K select 0:00 0.00% dhclient 36478 root 1 116 20 5744K 2772K select 0:00 0.00% sshd 36851 root 1 96 0 2356K 1576K RUN 0:00 0.00% top 572 root 1 8 0 14924K 864K wait 0:00 0.00% php 569 root 1 8 0 14924K 864K wait 0:00 0.00% php 553 root 1 8 0 14924K 864K wait 0:00 0.00% php 36493 root 1 8 0 1712K 1324K wait 0:00 0.00% login 36622 root 1 20 0 3620K 2612K pause 0:00 0.00% tcsh 10252 root 1 -8 0 1268K 280K piperd 0:00 0.00% sshlockout_pf 36528 root 1 8 0 1720K 1196K wait 0:00 0.00% sh 265 root 1 96 0 1468K 272K select 0:00 0.00% dhclient 36529 root 1 8 0 1728K 1204K wait 0:00 0.00% sh 36495 root 1 5 0 1724K 1200K ttyin 0:00 0.00% sh 36494 root 1 8 0 1720K 1196K wait 0:00 0.00% sh 35757 dhcpd 1 96 0 2188K 1812K select 0:00 0.00% dhcpd 36367 root 1 116 20 3064K 2496K select 0:00 0.00% sshd 127 root 1 96 0 504K 112K select 0:00 0.00% devd 33453 root 1 -8 0 1400K 956K piperd 0:00 0.00% cron 605 root 1 4 0 14924K 864K accept 0:00 0.00% php