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    2.4.5.a.20200110.1421 and earlier: High CPU usage from pfctl

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    • RicoR
      Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/roadmap#2.4.5-p1 looks very soon. 🤗

      -Rico

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      • kiokomanK
        kiokoman LAYER 8
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        No ETA on 2.4.5-p1 other than "Soon" (as in Weeks, not months)

        looks very soon.

        now you have done it.. 😂
        it seems that @techpro2004 is still away ... I'm sure he will come back to ask.. when ... "Soon" (as in Weeks, not months)!

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        Please do not use chat/PM to ask for help
        we must focus on silencing this @guest character. we must make up lies and alter the copyrights !
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        • RicoR
          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
          last edited by

          I bet he can't be far away since at least you now pinged him.
          bazinga.gif

          -Rico

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            tomahhunt
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            I love that I am very new to this forum but still know exaclty what you are talking about.

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            • M
              mjh_ca
              last edited by

              Appears to affect physical hardware as well. I have been investigating unexplained CARP state changes between a HA pair with Netgate C2758 hardware. The CARP state change is always preceded by a filter reload. Thanks @jimp and team for tracking this down. Looking forward to 2.4.5-p1 to fix.

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                tomahhunt @mjh_ca
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                @mjh_ca looks like the last open bug was merged yesterday if I am reading the redmine right. Can't be too long :) Then I can add all my cpu core back!

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                  psylenced @tomahhunt
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                  @tomahhunt said in 2.4.5.a.20200110.1421 and earlier: High CPU usage from pfctl:

                  @mjh_ca looks like the last open bug was merged yesterday if I am reading the redmine right. Can't be too long :) Then I can add all my cpu core back!

                  There are 4 more hidden bugs, so hopefully they're done soon!

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @psylenced
                    last edited by

                    @psylenced said in 2.4.5.a.20200110.1421 and earlier: High CPU usage from pfctl:

                    There are 4 more hidden bugs, so hopefully they're done soon!

                    3 of those are just administrivia things like updating the docs, release notes, and blog. Just one "bug" left and it should be solved just waiting for internal confirmation. Main thing we're waiting on now is internal testing of the release images.

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                    • JeGrJ
                      JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @jimp said in 2.4.5.a.20200110.1421 and earlier: High CPU usage from pfctl:

                      Main thing we're waiting on now is internal testing of the release images.

                      Any way we could help with testing an "RC" kinda version?

                      Don't forget to upvote 👍 those who kindly offered their time and brainpower to help you!

                      If you're interested, I'm available to discuss details of German-speaking paid support (for companies) if needed.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Not in this case since there aren't many changes and we were able to confirm the original issue and the fix internally. We're not going to have a long RC period and if testing goes well, it should be out next week sometime.

                        If it was going to be in RC for a while we might have made public snapshots but in this case a short cycle is warranted.

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                        • JeGrJ
                          JeGr LAYER 8 Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Thought so but wanted to offer the help nonetheless :)

                          Don't forget to upvote 👍 those who kindly offered their time and brainpower to help you!

                          If you're interested, I'm available to discuss details of German-speaking paid support (for companies) if needed.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154337/pfsense-2-4-5-release-p1-now-available

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                              mjh_ca
                              last edited by mjh_ca

                              2.4.5-p1 did not fix the issue for me. Or it is a different issue with very similar symptoms?

                              Netgate C2758 hardware, HA configuration. LAGG to switches. Configuration has been rock solid for years and unchanged, since upgrading to 2.4.5 I have had issues with unexpected CARP failovers. Thought the L2 switches had gone bad so I replaced them with Cisco switches, no improvement.

                              Correction - the 2.4.5-p1 high CPU fix does fix my issue.

                              Somehow both units were incorrectly in "Persistent CARP Maintenance Mode" (likely that way before the upgrade). Taking them out of maintenance mode, and the upgrade to 2.4.5-p1 for high CPU fix, seems to have resolved my CARP state change issues. Thank you Netgate!

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                              • Cool_CoronaC
                                Cool_Corona
                                last edited by

                                Disabling promiscious mode triggers the CARP failover since it talks to the NIC?

                                Can you adjust failover latency?

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                                  Krisbe
                                  last edited by

                                  2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 solved this problem for me.
                                  Thanks!

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                                    Gektor
                                    last edited by Gektor

                                    Hyper-V 2 CPU cores with pfBlockerNG and Table Usage Count: 24691 is every 2 seconds unbound using 1CPU at 100%. When pfBlockerNG is disabled, all ok. With same lists on 2.4.4 there is no noticeable CPU usage at all. Problem still there. but not so critical as it was.
                                    p.s.
                                    And memory usage with pfBlockerNG is increased twice compare to 2.4.4.

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                                    • daNutzD
                                      daNutz
                                      last edited by

                                      been running 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) since release and all ok however since a recent reboot i now have unbound causing 100%+ CPU spikes. This was present in 2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64) but not in 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (amd64)

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                                      • daNutzD
                                        daNutz @daNutz
                                        last edited by

                                        this causes DNS outages frequently for 10-15 seconds at a time.

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                                        • daNutzD
                                          daNutz @daNutz
                                          last edited by

                                          unbound-c

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                                            Krisbe
                                            last edited by

                                            What do you see in the logs?
                                            System logs, Resolver log ...

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