Php keeping cpu at 50% and 1 load?

[IH8Sn0wFal]

I have had my install of Pfsense running for a few weeks now and have not changed any setting recently, but i have all of a sudden increase in tempertures, and looked into it, seeing that when performing the top command, that php is using most of the processor, keeping the load at 1.0 or a little bit higher, and the cpu around 50-55% usage during idle when it used to be around 1-7% usage when idle and use

Top command result

$ top
last pid: 41084;  load averages:  1.00,  1.03,  1.00  up 0+00:53:49    04:25:23
49 processes:  1 running, 44 sleeping, 4 zombie

Mem: 71M Active, 25M Inact, 130M Wired, 80K Cache, 24M Buf, 3458M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C  TIME  WCPU COMMAND
28144 root        1  44    0  145M 36788K piperd  1  0:03  0.29% php
  259 root        1  76  20  6908K  1384K kqread  0  0:36  0.00% check_reload_status
31402 root        1  44    0  145M 34064K accept  0  0:04  0.00% php
31045 root        1  44    0 24224K  4184K kqread  1  0:01  0.00% lighttpd
78592 root        1  44    0  6844K  1556K select  0  0:01  0.00% miniupnpd
25764 root        1  44    0  5784K  1472K select  1  0:01  0.00% apinger
75995 root        1  44    0  6868K  1316K select  1  0:00  0.00% powerd
36831 nobody      1  44    0 10100K  2960K select  0  0:00  0.00% dnsmasq
1030 root        1  44    0 27568K  4820K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
66569 root        1  76  20  8296K  1844K wait    1  0:00  0.00% sh
  960 root        1  44    0 27568K  4820K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
2724 root        1  64  20 27568K  4824K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
2500 root        1  64  20 27568K  4824K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
  746 root        1  44    0 27568K  4952K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
2048 root        1  64  20 27568K  4956K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
  750 root        1  44    0 27568K  4952K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
2246 root        1  64  20 27568K  4956K bpf    1  0:00  0.00% bandwidthd
84461 root        1  44    0  6960K  1664K select  0  0:00  0.00% syslogd

Thanks!

• Jack

[stephenw10]

A common cause of high CPU usage like this is opening the dashboard on some client somewhere and forgetting to close it. Though that would not usually be for more than a day.  ;)

Steve