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      raggamuffin
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      I'm running release 1.0 on a 1.1GHz Celeron with 128MB RAM (it's an old Dell PowerEdge server from a few years back - it even ran Exchange Server at one point!). I keep finding, though, that the CPU is at 100%. Running 'top' shows me that the top two processes are:

      miniupnpd 67%
      syslogd 28%

      So between them, those two processes are munching 95% CPU. I'm not sure that either is doing a great deal (syslogd doesn't seem to be picking up logs from any of my installed packages). There are usually about 8-12 users behind the PFSense box on my LAN, plus up to about half a dozen VPNing in. Is this kind of CPU usage normal, or is there something amiss here? Is a 1.1GHz Celeron a bit on the low end? (Screen dump from 'top' is pasted below). Could it be the CPU usage that's causing my occasional dropped IMAP connections?

      Also (unrelated): the blog post announcing version 1.0 doesn't seem to have/link to a list of changes since the last RC/beta. Does anyone know where I can find that (apart from the CVS)?

      last pid: 82533;  load averages:  2.57,  2.47,  2.48    up 6+00:44:17  11:34:46
      37 processes:  2 running, 35 sleeping
      CPU states: 54.1% user,  0.0% nice, 41.7% system,  4.1% interrupt,  0.0% idle
      Mem: 61M Active, 9276K Inact, 32M Wired, 4696K Cache, 22M Buf, 10M Free
      Swap: 256M Total, 54M Used, 202M Free, 21% Inuse

      PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME  WCPU COMMAND
        719 root        1 132    0  3536K  1048K RUN    93.2H 68.80% miniupnpd
        188 root        1 122    0  1360K  352K select  48.2H 26.03% syslogd
      30398 root        4  20    0 52492K  8032K kserel  13:35  0.00% ntop
        469 root        1  8  20  2296K  1004K wait    3:31  0.00% sh
      30542 nobody      1  96    0  3928K  3292K select  2:02  0.00% darkstat
        725 root        1 -58    0 23764K 20408K bpf      1:45  0.00% snort
        334 root        1  4    0  3372K  1276K kqread  0:56  0.00% lighttpd
        727 root        1  8  20  1192K  228K nanslp  0:55  0.00% check_reload_st
        263 root        1 -58    0  3800K  1220K bpf      0:19  0.00% tcpdump
        714 _ntp        1  96    0  1260K  372K select  0:12  0.00% ntpd
      69245 root        1  4    0 42340K 13872K accept  0:11  0.00% php
        434 proxy      1  4    0  656K  252K kqread  0:04  0.00% pftpx
      30543 nobody      1  4    0  1516K  584K sbwait  0:03  0.00% darkstat
        531 root        1  8    0  1304K  524K nanslp  0:03  0.00% cron
      81735 root        1  4    0 42256K 13740K accept  0:02  0.00% php
        264 root        1  -8    0  1196K  440K piperd  0:01  0.00% logger
      81739 root        1  96    0  5568K  2236K select  0:00  0.00% sshd

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        sullrich
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        719 root        1 132    0  3536K  1048K RUN    93.2H 68.80% miniupnpd

        Your hitting the miniupnpd race bug.  Restart the service from Status -> Services when this happens.  Check over on the miniupnpd thread for more info.

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          raggamuffin
          last edited by

          Thanks for answering. I couldn't find the miniupnpd thread (neither forum nor google search had much to contribute). Could you please point me in the right direction? For the record, my syslog is chucking out messages like this:

          Oct 27 09:07:25 miniupnpd[93719]: Unsupported HTTP Command SUBSCRIBE
          Oct 27 09:07:25 miniupnpd[93719]: Unknown soap method
          Oct 27 09:07:25 last message repeated 903899 times
          Oct 27 09:04:09 last message repeated 2762463 times
          Oct 27 08:54:07 last message repeated 2764000 times
          Oct 27 08:44:07 last message repeated 2760011 times
          Oct 27 08:34:05 last message repeated 2783299 times
          Oct 27 08:24:05 last message repeated 563501 times
          Oct 27 08:22:04 last message repeated 139653 times
          Oct 27 08:21:33 miniupnpd[93719]: Unsupported HTTP Command SUBSCRIBE
          Oct 27 08:21:33 miniupnpd[93719]: Unknown soap method

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            sullrich
            last edited by

            http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,551.0.html

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              rsw686
              last edited by

              Please reinstall the package. Those errors have been fixed. The latest version is 20061023.

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