High CPU on Dashboard

[cyberfarer]

Greetings,

I am seeing an issue on the dashboard where widgets cause many PHP and PHP-CGI processes to spawn that eventually consume all CPU. The widgets themselves become unresponsive. I've noted this issue raised on these forums but not addressed and possibly unrelated.

Logs show entries like this:

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2025-11-19T22:11:53-05:00 OPNsense.localdomain configd.py 381 - [meta sequenceId="18"] [68d947aa-2219-44e2-b504-bb0cc73ee1c8] Script action failed with Command '/usr/local/opnsense/scripts/routes/gateway_status.php' died with <Signals.SIGKILL: 9>. at Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/opnsense/service/modules/actions/script_output.py", line 89, in execute     subprocess.run(script_command, env=self.config_environment, shell=True,   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 571, in run     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '/usr/local/opnsense/scripts/routes/gateway_status.php' died with <Signals.SIGKILL: 9>.

This began when configuring IDS, but I have since disabled and removed all rules and the issue persists so I now believe it is unrelated.

Thoughts and ideas are welcome.

P.S. CPU is fine so long as I don't visit the dashboard or remove the impacted widgets.

[senseOPN]

Yes, that does not look sane!

I made a test, had "top" running and then logged in to the dashboard.

I saw just a small spike and then it went down to normal:

last pid: 62529;  load averages:  0.24,  0.15,  0.09                                                                                                         up 12+02:08:11  21:27:58
64 processes:  1 running, 63 sleeping
CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.6% idle
Mem: 117M Active, 629M Inact, 2067M Wired, 104K Buf, 59G Free
ARC: 1198M Total, 815M MFU, 244M MRU, 1046K Anon, 17M Header, 118M Other
     873M Compressed, 2131M Uncompressed, 2.44:1 Ratio
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

[cyberfarer]

I am seeing these log entries, but I'm not clear if they're a result of the high CPU:

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2025-11-20T12:07:38-05:00
Error
lighttpd
(/usr/obj/usr/ports/www/lighttpd/work/lighttpd-1.4.82/src/gw_backend.c.533) connect() /var/lib/php/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket-1: Connection refused