Bug #4408
closed
Changes to DHCP-services crashes GUI and DHCP daemon when many leases are in use
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Description
I have the DHCP service running on five interfaces and a good amount of leases (I would guess around 1,000 or more at any given time). If I make changes to the DHCP service while it is running, the pfSense GUI hangs indefinetely. I tried to run top on the box and can initially see two php-fpm processes each consuming a full core. After a while one of them dies but the other continues to run at full blast. Meanwhile the GUI is totally unresponsive.
I let it run for a bit longer and noticed that the DHCP service was crashed on the box.
I used to be able to stop the DHCP service and then make the changes, but this no longer seems to work. Today I tried to add a static mapping to one of the scopes and now I can't apply that change without crashing the GUI, even when the DHCP service is stopped.
I'm running in a CARP setup with DHCP failover enabled.
Updated by Lars Jorgensen almost 10 years ago
If I disable DHCP failover everything works perfectly.
Updated by Patrick S over 9 years ago
I have similar problems since I updated from version 2.0 to 2.1, when I change something in the DHCPd settings I see the same behavior as you.
But in addition, when I change something DHCP independent, e.g. Rules or DNS Host Overrides, most of the Failover Groups switch to the "recover" state on the slave maschine.
It doesn't switch back to "normal" or "recover-wait" until I restart the DHCPd on the slave.
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Updated by Jim Pingle over 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
This was most likely from the duplicate lease cleanup which was removed years ago in 306b9d003078f40999d352803e998867ebbc5086