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    Web GUI Unresponsive in pfSense 2.3.4

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      Hello!

      Currently I have a primary/secondary pfSense cluster setup using CARP - this seems to work really well. However, whenever I log in to the secondary node, in order to do updates etc. the web interface is not always responsive, or it becomes unresponsive after a few minutes. The primary node however seems to work perfectly.

      Both VM's are running on version 2.3.4 of pfSense, the secondary node has the following software packages installed:

      • Open-VM-Tools

      • openvpn-client-export

      • Shellcmd

      • snort

      • squid

      • squidGuard

      The work around seems to be log into the console and restart the PHP-FPM service, and/or the webConfigurator. Which I wouldn't mind doing if it was an occasional problem. But as it happens so frequently the web interface is not very usable.

      After restarting the PHP-FPM service, I see some nginx errors in the System > General log (attached).

      I lot of the threads I've seen on this issue seem to be quite old and reference lighttpd, which I think I am right in saying, has now been replaced with nginx.

      I've also read this thread https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=139126.0 which seems to suggest that snort is the problem. I have tried uninstalling snort, but the issue still seems to persist.

      Any further help or suggestions much appreciated.
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