Re: High CPU -problem

Manuel Kasper <[email protected]> Mon, 10 May 2010 23:16:57 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
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On 10.05.2010, at 23:07, Roberto Greiner wrote:

> I´m getting some very high CPU numbers, from two processes, which I have no idea what they are. Could someone point me to what they are?
> $ ps -aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> root 15 42.0 0.0 0 8 ?? RL 12:13PM 105:04.59 [swi5: +]
> root 11 37.2 0.0 0 8 ?? WL 12:13PM 75:57.63 [swi1: net]

Those are not real processes, but software interrupt handlers. My guess would be that your box is busy dealing with lots of network traffic; can you give us some details on the hardware platform and approximate throughput (or packets-per-second) through your m0n0wall?

- Manuel