Recently I've noticed that my ASG VM is burning up CPU time like there's no tomorrow and I'm not doing anything different to it. I've even rebuilt it from scratch only to have the same problem.
This is what I have:
ASG v7.405
running on VMware Server 2 (had it on MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 before same problem)
Core2 Duo with 1 core assigned to the VM
256MB of RAM assigned to the VM
I've only got firewall and http-proxy enabled.
Proxy is in transparent mode (I use it for the caching and content filter for the kids)
I have uTorrent running on one box but it is set as an exception in the proxy settings and DNAT is configured to send all packets with the uTorrent dport to that box.
So the other day, something happened while I was out, net was down and my server had to be hard reset, might have been a brown out or something. Anyway, it all fired up fine, ASG did its disk check thing and seemed happy but the net was slow and I kept getting lag spikes and disconnects in WoW while I was trying to do a 25man run. I thought something must have been screwed up, so I investigated in webadmin. the CPU was pegged at between 95 and 99% and would not go back down, normally it runs with little effort.
I decided I would rebuild it and even remove virtual server and intall vmware server 2 (I wanted it installed for something else anyway). Built astaro (took ages) and noticed that it was using lots of CPU cycles right from the start, before I even did any updates. My torrent box may have been hitting it trying to make connections. So I configured and updated it and still the CPU usage is high.
This morning I've stopped uTorrent to see if that would ease the pressure, but still its going hard.
top tells me that the majority of the usage is from pppoe and confd.plx. confd drops off when I exit webadmin but pppoe persists.
As far as I can tell, everything in the server seems to be working fine. WebAdmin seems to be more reliable than it was on the previous build, but I can't have ASG hogging the CPU, it never used to. Admittedly the only reason I'm using ASG is becasue of the nice web filtering, I was using smoothwall prior to this and even with addons its filtering is nowhere near as good as Astaro, but if I can't get this resolved, I'll have to look elsewhere, I need those CPU cycles for other things.
=== FIXED ===
Read my post further on for details.
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