CPU spike every 10 minutes like clockwork
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I'm just wondering…I'm running 1.2.3 RELEASE on an ESXi 4.1 host and the performance generally hangs around 15% or so, but there's a spike to 50% every 10 minutes...exactly. I'm wondering what this might be.
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Log on to the console or an SSH terminal and run top, you should see what's consuming the CPU.
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I tried this and didn't really see anything. There was a short "RUN" listed for a second, but then it was gone. There are also a few items listed for VMware-tools, which i thought was odd (to be a the top of top). I'll keep searching. I just thought that someone would know this.
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Is it VMWare that's showing the spike as being at 50%, or the tools inside pfSense?
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Likely the RRD graphs.