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High CPU Forcing a Reboot

Hello. I am still very new to this firewall. It seems to be using too much CPU in the middle of the day around 1:30 to 3:00 PM. I notice the Internet come to a crashing halt and I am forced to reboot the Firewall.

I upgraded from 7.003 to 7.004 in hopes that would fix it but it still continues. How do I diagnose and resolve this? I have attached a weeks Hardware Report that shows a spike the same time each day.

Thanks,
Matt

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0 VelvetFog over 18 years ago

How much RAM is installed in your firewall?
It appears that you are using a significant portion of the swap partition.
That tells me that you need considerably more RAM in the machine.
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0 Blue Tree Technology over 18 years ago in reply to VelvetFog

It has 512Mb RAM.
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0 Agadoo over 18 years ago in reply to Blue Tree Technology
ssh loginuser@astaro
su -
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0 Blue Tree Technology over 18 years ago in reply to Agadoo

Today at 1:30pm the Processor spiked again. I then decided to doubled the RAM on this system. Lets see how it works now.
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0 Blue Tree Technology over 18 years ago in reply to Blue Tree Technology

Again today at 1:30pm the processor spiked. The added RAM seemed to help performance but this seems to still be and issue. Where do I need to go from here?

Thanks,
Matt
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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to Blue Tree Technology

This might be some sort of log compression function, that would normally run at night.

Make sure your clock/date and timezone settings are right.

It shouldn't slow down your connection though.

Barry
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0 William Warren over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

the realistic minimum ram for Astaro is 1 gigabyte.
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0 Blue Tree Technology over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

This might be some sort of log compression function, that would normally run at night.

Make sure your clock/date and timezone settings are right.

It shouldn't slow down your connection though.

Barry

I checked the time and it is all right.

Again today it hit at 1:30 PM. And yes it drops the connection to a crawl. It is noticeable on all Internet browsing.
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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to Blue Tree Technology

Memory utilization doesn't appear to be an issue while that is running looking at the memory and swap utilization.

Can you log in via console and run top while the connection is slow? Can you perform any ping/traceroute tests while the connection slow and compare to when the connection is fast?
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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to Blue Tree Technology

Memory utilization doesn't appear to be an issue while that is running looking at the memory and swap utilization.

Can you log in via console and run top while the connection is slow? Can you perform any ping/traceroute tests while the connection slow and compare to when the connection is fast?
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0 bitonw over 18 years ago in reply to drees

Does this happened also in the weekend when nobody is in the office? If so then it's a cron job doing what ever...

Or are you running a backup job or something like to or from the Internet at that time?

Or what NIC's are you using?
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