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    • G
      gallaics
      last edited by stephenw10

      Hi guys, it seems like I'm running out of ideas what causing high cpu usage ~65%-75% by default with a minimal traffic passing through.
      I'm new to pfSense | FreeBSD and any help appreciated in advance.

      Here comes some info about my fw:

      pfSense 2.4.4
      Gigabyte J4005N d2P motherboard with the latest BIOS
      (Built-in Intel® Celeron® J4005 (up to 2.7 GHz) dual-core processor)
      WD green M.2 Sata SSD
      2X4GB DDR4 Kingston 2400 memory modules
      INTEL PRO/1000 PT Dual port PCIe NIC

      [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: top -aSH
      last pid: 44889; load averages: 1.68, 1.87, 1.74 up 0+00:34:51 22:25:11
      133 processes: 4 running, 114 sleeping, 15 waiting
      CPU: 0.5% user, 0.0% nice, 63.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 36.5% idle
      Mem: 66M Active, 48M Inact, 180M Wired, 17M Buf, 7408M Free
      Swap: 3888M Total, 3888M Free

      PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
      11 root 155 ki31 0K 32K RUN 0 24:42 72.06% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
      11 root 155 ki31 0K 32K RUN 1 16:39 48.25% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
      0 root 8 - 0K 336K - 0 9:52 27.95% [kernel{acpi_task_2}]
      0 root 8 - 0K 336K - 0 9:28 27.64% [kernel{acpi_task_0}]
      0 root 8 - 0K 336K CPU0 0 7:48 22.06% [kernel{acpi_task_1}]

      [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: systat -vmstat 1

      2 users    Load  1.91  1.96  1.80                  Nov  1 22:28
      

      Mem usage: 4%Phy 0%Kmem
      Mem: KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER
      Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out
      Act 104308 11404 445584 14280 7585072 count
      All 108692 15692 478096 40248 pages
      Proc: Interrupts
      r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt ioflt 15581 total
      57 112k 6658 1140 13k 26 6603 152 cow 13304 acpi0 9
      6290 zfod 1127 cpu0:timer
      63.4%Sys 0.0%Intr 0.4%User 0.0%Nice 36.2%Idle ozfod 1129 cpu1:timer
      | | | | | | | | | | %ozfod hdac0 264
      ================================ daefr ahci0 265
      29 dtbuf 663 prcfr 5 em0 266
      Namei Name-cache Dir-cache 210301 desvn 12723 totfr 16 em1 267
      Calls hits % hits % 1216 numvn react xhci0 268
      278 276 99 1 0 122 frevn pdwak
      40 pdpgs
      Disks md0 ada0 pass0 intrn

      KB/t 0.00 0.00 0.00 184112 wire
      tps 0 0 0 67432 act
      MB/s 0.00 0.00 0.00 50044 inact
      %busy 0 0 0 laund
      7585072 free
      17672 buf

      [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: netstat -m

      3687/1383/5070 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
      2866/680/3546/1000000 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
      2866/676 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
      0/80/80/524288 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
      0/0/0/524288 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
      0/0/0/41075 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
      6653K/2025K/8679K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
      0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
      0/0/0 requests for mbufs delayed (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
      0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters delayed (4k/9k/16k)
      0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
      0 sendfile syscalls
      0 sendfile syscalls completed without I/O request
      0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
      0 pages read by sendfile as part of a request
      0 pages were valid at time of a sendfile request
      0 pages were requested for read ahead by applications
      0 pages were read ahead by sendfile
      0 times sendfile encountered an already busy page
      0 requests for sfbufs denied
      0 requests for sfbufs delayed

      Cheers,
      C

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Hmm, weird.

        How does that appear in ps -auxww ?

        Steve

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        • G
          gallaics
          last edited by

          Hi Steve, it seems like this motherboard and pfSense ain’t friends at all, acpi issues all over the place... I tried to turn it off in loader.conf but then it just doesn’t boot. I’m going to replace this board with a different one and give it a go.

          Thanks
          C

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