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leif
New Member
January 7, 2021
Question

High CPU Usage - appDemo process

  • January 7, 2021
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Hi. I recently replaced a FGT 200E (running 5.6.x) with a FGT 201F (6.2.x) where I lightly modified the configuration.

The new firewall (201F running 6.2.7) now shows high cpu usage on one alternating core. 

CLI and diagnose sys top shows

Run Time: 0 days, 12 hours and 39 minutes 3U, 0N, 9S, 88I, 0WA, 0HI, 0SI, 0ST; 7979T, 3990F appDemo 169 S < 99.8 0.8

 

So in other words the process appDemo uses 99,8% cpu. 

 

I've tried to identify the appDemo process and the purpose of it without luck. It's not listed here: https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD40822

 

Any clues on how to process further here?

 

Thanks.

    2 replies

    Pak_8
    New Member
    February 20, 2021

    I'm experiencing the exact same problem, on a FGT 200F 6.2.7.

    Did you solve your problem? I can't seem to find anything about that process.

    Thanks

    leif
    leifAuthor
    New Member
    February 20, 2021

    Hi. I'm waiting on Fortinet to create a new firmware. Seems to be a bug. 

     

    Its possible to disable FSSO polling and or change the ports that fsso uses

    config system fsso-polling set listening-port <8400>

     

    config user fsso set port <8400>

    Referance: https://docs.fortinet.com...20/system-fsso-polling https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.1/cli-reference/410620/user-fsso

     

    and then do a reboot on the fortigate fw. 

     

    Might help.

    Pak_8
    New Member
    February 21, 2021

    Thanks for your answer.

    So is it somehow related to the FSSO? Does it come from your personal experience or did u get an official answer from Fortinet? Thank you very much.

    toxicshot
    Explorer
    December 16, 2022

    Here are some more specific instructions (specifically for DC Agent mode) having run through this several times now (we are running the 601F in HA).

    1. Change the port that FSSO uses on the FortiGate side - this is a per collector configuration.

    config user fsso

    edit <name of collector>

    set port 8400

    2. Set the listening port on the collector to match (as seen in the image below)

     

    toxicshot_0-1671200904280.png

    3. Reboot the firewall or both firewalls (if in HA) to see the changes to the CPU.