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# sk102401 - The Gaia 'DAService' process consumes CPU at high level

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk102401 |
| Date Created | 2014-09-07 |
| Last Modified | 2017-04-12 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway, Security Management Server |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.10, R82, R81.20, R82.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- Output of 'top' command on Gaia OS shows that 'DAService' process consumes CPU at high level.

*Example*:

```

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
19641 admin     20   0  111m  53m 4964 S    2  0.1 388:52.32 DAService
 8713 admin     15   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0 147:27.15 fw_worker_0
 8714 admin     15   0     0    0    0 S    1  0.0 124:05.18 fw_worker_1
 8715 admin     15   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0 165:13.24 fw_worker_2
 8716 admin     15   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0 125:20.65 fw_worker_3
 8717 admin     15   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0 123:20.95 fw_worker_4
```

## Cause

This is a known issue with the Gaia Software Updates Agent builds up to build 615.

## Solution

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