2.4 CPU usage unusually high

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[wjstone]

I think it could be the disk,  or maybe ram.  How much RAM do you have in that machine?  I wonder if it's trying to write things to swap and that's causing the issue.

[arminf]

Thanks WJStone

2 GB Ram and swap is always empty.

Disk is a CF crad 133 UDMA
Could also use Sata thought about buying a ssd.

cheers

[wjstone]

I dunno man that's pretty strange.  I was hoping you were just writing to swap and that was doing it.   Seems that isn't the issue.  Have you tried installing the respin that came out a few days back?

[arminf]

Hi wjstone

yes i use the respin version.  must be snort leated as my network traffic slowed down, too.
cheers

[icebrian]

Hello everyone...

I am in need of urgent help... i've just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 and I am getting the high CPU usage bug from ksoftirqd. rrdfix.sh fix doesn't seem to solve problem.

Swap is at 0 and firewall is so unresponsive that I can't get an ip via DHCP or access webinterface.

How can I disable do the steps:


1- Disable Traffic monitoring (ugh!)
2- Configure Traffic Monitoring to only catch data of your local hosts. eg 192.168.0.0/16

Without accessing the webinterface? or any other ideas?

Thanks,

[icebrian]

Ok well in an attempt to fix this issue I decided to do a clean install of v2.4. Aparently error is still there, I was therefore forced to go back to v2.2.