yeah - honestly what I found was Snort needs some pretty good processor to do 
the job...
I know of some basic hardware that does it really well - under $400 for a 
simple rackmount 

It works well however :-)

Found it on this list just a short time ago 


Have a great productive week. 

Glenn


On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:27 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Well, I uninstalled the Snort plugin after reading your mail.  That may have 
> been the cause. I guess a pentium III 900MHz just can't handle snort + PHP.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Kelley" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:50:53 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] PHP Process consuming 100% CPU
> 
> I saw this as well - found it was the snort plugin doing it when ever it was 
> clicked - cpu climbed. 
> Interesting - on the sister machine (same hardware - same config) cannot 
> duplicate. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 2:31 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am running pfSense 1.2.3-RC1, and the php process is currently eating 100% 
> CPU. I have tried logging in via SSH and using the "restart the 
> WebConfigurator" option, but that doesn't restart the PHP process.
> I am holding off on restarting the machine in case any devs was to SSH in and 
> see if there's anything they can see causing the issue.
> All I can tell that causes the PHP process to do this is viewing certain 
> pages in the web interface. 
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> AR
> 
> 

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