Sophos XG 100% CPU

Modified on Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 8:42 AM

You may have an XG Appliance that every now and again becomes unresponsive and requires a reboot.


If you look at the graphs in Diagnostics menu you will see dropouts and the CPU hitting 100% during that time.

Sample Graph below.



To help try to resolve this try the following 2 commands from the Sophos console


system auto-reboot-on-stall enable
system firewall-acceleration disable




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