Nanobsd on alix sometimes 100% CPU

xbipin

can any1 plz let me know the commands or steps to perform to find out the process which causes a 100% CPU usage on nanobsd on alix coz im a complete newbie in BSD and linux.
im currently running the 11th October 1.2.3 RC3 and i noticed a 100% CPU usage in the last 24hrs after a new install, initially it was normal but i guess after a few hours it started showing 100% CPU usage, what i noticed is any config change causes a 100% CPU and then it never returns to normal untill u reboot it

one other thing is all my CF cards i use with alix i get these 2 lines in serial console
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 922383

and also after a few reboots etc one of my CF card failed or so as the serial console started saying write failed, next 1 retry and this started coming when loading web configurator and pfsense would never boot up completely so i replaced it with another CF card and that worked fine but the rawoffset warning it still keep getting in serial console

tohil

hi

connect with ssh or serial.

on the console try out:

ps -aux
top

xbipin

on runnin gtop i see this

28 process 69022 running, 26 slee 1.73, 0.79, 0.33 up 0+01:34:04 16:07:04
CPU: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle
Mem: 13.4Active, 0.0Inact, 285.4ired, 40K 1.3e, 23M Buf, 1 0.0Free
Swap:

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
6542 root 1 118 0 3268K 1156K RUN 1:44 98.97% syslogd
621 root 1 7 0 41736K 15680K accept 0:28 100.00% syslogd
611 root 1 8 0 42760K 16164K nanslp 0:03 0.98% php
603 root 1 4 0 5132K 2868K kqread 0:01 0.00% lighttpd
945 root 1 8 20 3156K 796K nanslp 0:01 0.00% check_reload_st
354 root 1 44 0 3312K 1492K select 0:00 0.00% hostapd
482 root 1 44 0 3268K 1376K select 0:00 0.00% inetd
1179 proxy 1 -58 20 3312K 1260K bpf 0:00 0.00% ftpsesame
421 root 1 -58 0 5716K 2140K bpf 0:00 0.00% tcpdump
675 nobody 1 44 0 3156K 1308K select 0:00 0.00% dnsmasq
921 root 1 44 0 3188K 1160K select 0:00 0.00% miniupnpd
286 root 1 44 0 4660K 1908K select 0:00 0.00% mpd
6334 root 1 20 0 3508K 2192K pause 0:00 0.00% tcsh
687 _ntp 1 44 0 3156K 1232K select 0:00 0.00% ntpd
604 root 1 8 0 39688K 5020K wait 0:00 0.00% php
615 root 1 8 0 39688K 5020K wait 0:00 0.00% php
609 root 1 8 0 39688K 5020K wait 0:00 0.00% php

and the culprit is
6542 root 1 118 0 3268K 1156K RUN 1:44 98.97% syslogd
621 root 1 7 0 41736K 15680K accept 0:28 100.00% syslogd

which causes 100% CPU on any config change at all

xbipin

i used
kill -ABRT 6542
to kill it and then everything back to normal

gloomrider

@xbipin:

one other thing is all my CF cards i use with alix i get these 2 lines in serial console
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63
WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 922383

and also after a few reboots etc one of my CF card failed or so as the serial console started saying write failed, next 1 retry and this started coming when loading web configurator and pfsense would never boot up completely so i replaced it with another CF card and that worked fine but the rawoffset warning it still keep getting in serial console

Your description of the bad CF card symptom (web configurator hangs for a long time then throws an error) was identical to mine. I believe the rawoffset errors can be safely ignored.