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# sk101484 - CPD crashed/terminated without a Core Dump or the process is consuming high CPU utilization (>90%) 

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk101484 |
| Date Created | 2014-06-30 |
| Last Modified | 2024-02-01 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway, Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server |
| Versions | R81.20, R81.10 (EOS), R81.20, R81 (EOS), R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS), R81 (EOS), R81.10 (EOS), R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * CPD is consuming high CPU utilization (\>90%) on the Security Gateway or Management Server / CMA   
  Note: In some cases, the CPD may not crash - in part of the cases it will be restarted by a watchdog.
* SIC communication and policy installation are failing on the gateway.
* Running cpstop and cpstart, and/or rebooting the system does not resolve the problem.
* CPD is crashing and cpwd.elg shows:

  ```
  
  [ERROR] Process CPD terminated abnormally : Unhandled signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Core dumped. 
  [ERROR] Failed to register new process file_name:CPD_XXX_XXX.mntr
  ```

* In some scenarios cpwd.elg shows repeatedly:

  ```
  
  [ERROR] CPD (pid_of_cpd) did not send keep-alive message for x number of times
  ```

## Cause

The high CPU utilization of the CPD daemon is caused by an endless I/O read loop on the CPEPS table handler. The tables in $CPDIR/database/cpeps contain the gateway's status history. It appears that the CPEPS database got corrupted.

[Contact Check Point Support](http://www.checkpoint.com/services/contact/index.html) to run strace on $CPDIR/bin/cpd to confirm the cause.

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