Good morning!
Hope someone here might help me diagnose this one ... recently upgraded to OPNsense 21.1.9-amd64, and I noticed this morning very high cpu usage on my opnsense box. I'm relatively new to opnsense but a little poking around shows this:
| PID | USERNAME | PRI | NICE | SIZE | RES | STATE | C | TIME | WCPU | COMMAND |
| 19011 | root | 103 | 0 | 1036 | 1560 | CPU1 | 1 | 412:37 | 100.00% | /usr/local/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -P /var/run/syslog.pid -p /var/run/legacy_log -S /var/run/legacy_logpriv -k -s -s -f /var/etc/syslog.conf |
| 59064 | root | 103 | 0 | 6382 | 1141 | CPU3 | 3 | 16.9H | 98.97% | /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/opnsense/service/configd_ctl.py -e -t 0.5 system event config_changed (python3.7) |
| 30701 | root | 83 | 0 | 35 | 5096 | CPU2 | 2 | 0:27 | 36.47% | /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /usr/local/etc/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid{syslog-ng} |
| 11 | root | 155 | ki31 | 0 | 64 | RUN | 0 | 436.3H | 19.29% | [idle{idle: cpu0}] |
And my log file is full of millions of repeated events like this:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
2021-07-28T08:35:59 configctl[59064] event @ 1627453482.74 msg:
I tried restarting the configd service but problem still persists. I haven't yet tried restarting the box as two of us working from home today, but then the whole point of a resilient firewall is that I shouldn't need to, right? Any ideas gratefully received!