High load on open VPN
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last pid: 26320; load averages: 1.34, 1.37, 1.33 up 19+11:02:18 16:18:24
129 processes: 5 running, 97 sleeping, 27 waiting
I run pfsense 2.2.2 on a Dell 210 using BCE nicswe are getting high load from our openVPN
Mem: 13M Active, 117M Inact, 230M Wired, 233M Buf, 1591M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M FreePID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
15069 root 100 0 21732K 5544K RUN 1 27:15 90.77% /usr/local/sbin/openvpn –config /var/etc
11 root 155 ki31 0K 32K RUN 0 225.7H 38.09% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
11 root 155 ki31 0K 32K RUN 1 205.9H 37.26% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
12 root -92 - 0K 448K CPU1 1 22.5H 20.17% [intr{irq277: bce1}]
12 root -92 - 0K 448K WAIT 0 19.6H 15.67% [intr{irq276: bce0}]
13593 root 23 0 224M 35648K piperd 1 0:00 0.29% php-fpm: pool lighty (php-fpm)
78776 nobody 20 0 30260K 4500K select 0 1:04 0.20% [dnsmasq]The Client side is not running hot at all
last pid: 75301; load averages: 0.17, 0.09, 0.08 up 34+13:52:31 16:20:39
143 processes: 3 running, 117 sleeping, 23 waitingMem: 8488K Active, 89M Inact, 134M Wired, 91M Buf, 1716M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M FreePID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
11 root 155 ki31 0K 16K RUN 1 734.3H 97.17% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
11 root 155 ki31 0K 16K CPU0 0 741.1H 96.58% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
12 root -92 - 0K 184K WAIT 0 287:21 1.56% [intr{irq257: re0}]
12 root -56 - 0K 184K WAIT 0 19.2H 0.78% [intr{swi5: fast taskq}]
62709 root 22 0 83724K 27532K piperd 1 0:00 0.49% php-fpm: pool lighty (php-fpm)
92224 root 20 0 12732K 4760K select 0 48.3H 0.29% /usr/local/sbin/openvpn –config /var/etc/
12 root -92 - 0K 184K WAIT 0 42.6H 0.00% [intr{irq22: rl0}]
12 root -72 - 0K 184K WAIT 1 540:32 0.00% [intr{swi1: netisr 1}]Can anyone suggest a reason that this is occuring. There is no encryption on the vpn. traffic is passing ok and we are not getting packet loss, just the high CPU load on the server side.