PKG installer high CPU

lonblu

I started noticing my Pfsense gateway slowed down, then I have found out the CPU is always 100% because of pkg installer.

So I backed up the config without packages, reinstalled pfsense and imported old config.
Still there is an issue in retrieving the list of package, and cpu utilisation is abnormal.

CPU Activity

last pid: 48831; load averages: 2.01, 1.57, 0.83 up 0+00:08:24 20:27:25
126 processes: 6 running, 98 sleeping, 22 waiting

Mem: 47M Active, 43M Inact, 224M Wired, 19M Buf, 649M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
46989 root 103 0 45336K 8708K CPU1 1 6:53 100.00% pkg update
55919 root 103 0 45336K 9348K CPU2 2 6:41 99.27% /usr/sbin/pkg search -R –raw-format json-
11 root 155 ki31 0K 48K RUN 0 4:30 44.48% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
11 root 155 ki31 0K 48K RUN 2 3:35 30.96% [idle{idle: cpu2}]
11 root 155 ki31 0K 48K RUN 1 3:16 28.08% [idle{idle: cpu1}]

What should I do next?

lonblu

Updating pfsense-core repository catalogue…

NOthing happens. I have rebooted several times after waiting much longer that usual

Where can i find pkg installer logs?
How can I clean the cache or old package list?

PiBa

"reinstalled pfsense" sounds the 100% sure way to clean cache..?

lonblu

DNS issue…
It s working now...