'confd' process consumes CPU at high level on Gaia OS due to large size of Gaia Database (/config/db/initial

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'confd' process consumes CPU at high level on Gaia OS due to large size of Gaia Database (/config/db/initial_db)

Technical Level

Solution ID	sk104761
Technical Level
Product	Security Gateway, Security Management, ClusterXL, Cluster - 3rd party, VSX, Multi-Domain Management
Version	R75.40, R75.40VS, R75.45, R75.46, R75.47, R76, R77, R77.10, R77.20
OS	Gaia
Platform / Model	All
Date Created	15-Feb-2015
Last Modified	19-Oct-2020

Symptoms

Gaia machine does not respond to SNMP requests, and /var/log/messages file repeatedly shows:
snmpd: Error: Timeout waiting for response from database server
Gaia Cloning Groups can not be synchronized.
Output of "top" command / or "ps auxw" command shows that "confd" process consumes CPU at high level on Gaia OS.
The user is not able to log in to Gaia Portal - after entering the credentials, the icon spins forever, and Gaia Portal never loads.
During boot process, following error seen: Starting cp_pm_rl3: Error communicating with ^pm^ over ^/tmp/pmwiresock^: Timeout waiting for response from database server.

Cause

Each change made in Gaia Clish or in Gaia Portal is saved under a revision in the Gaia Database - /config/db/initial_db file.

Once this file becomes large, confd process consumes more CPU to read from this file, or to save new data to this file.

Solution

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