FreeBSD 6.3 racoon cpu 99,9% after some time workin

[Christopher Cowart]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:46:18AM +0100, Norman Maurer wrote:
> I have some strange problem.. After racoon works some hours it seems to
> "freeze" and get a cpu usage of 99,9%. The vpns don't work anymore too..
> Any idea ?

By any chance do you have a large number of tunnels? We went so far as
to write a daemon to watch racoon and restart it automatically. We
finally ended up bumping up buffer sizes in the ipsec-tools sources and
sysctl.

See this thread from -net:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-August/015046.html

-- 
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley
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