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      wolfandy
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      Hi all

      I have been using pfSense for a while without any issues. However today the system died on me and I had to reset it.

      After the reset, I noticed that my CPU utilization was unusually high. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the command "pkg-static update -f" is causing constant 100% utilization of one of the CPU cores:

      ID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
      36277 root 103 0 12344K 7356K CPU1 1 11:11 99.85% pkg-static update -f

      Disabling the Dashboard auto-update check as well as numerous reboots have not been able to change this.

      I found an old thread here - but it did not offer a solution: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/121465/pkg-static-100-cpu

      Can anyone please help?

      Thanks in advance

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        wolfandy
        last edited by

        Interestingly enough, after about 15 mins at 100% utilization, the process is no longer running and CPU utilization now back to normal

        I still find it a bit strange the the update process would fully utilize the CPU for such a long time

        Anyone else had similar experience?

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          RedDelPaPa
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          This is absolutely ridiculous!

          It's October 2019 and still happening to me right now!

          Un friggen believable.

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