Help! CPU load increase (logax process)

During last 5 days or so there's something going on with my Lionde.

There's a huge load on CPU.

Initially it was 200% and now in jumps as high as 600%

I didn't change anything.

The last thing I tried to to was to remove OpenPanel admin panel, but it didn't go well (Apache didn't start at all), so I had to install it again.

I asked supported and they said:
> It appears that a process called "LOGAX" is consuming almost all of the resources on your Linode. I unfortunately am not familiar with the process so I couldn't say what it is.

Does anybody know what is this LOGAX process and why it takes all resources?

They asked for output for certain commands and here what it said:

Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s

TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND

5120 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % openpanel-authd

1 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % init

2 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kthreadd]

3 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/0]

4 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/0:0]

5 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/0:0H]

6 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u:0]

7 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u:0H]

8 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/0]

9 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [rcu_bh]

10 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [rcu_sched]

11 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/1]

12 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/1]

13 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/1:0]

14 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/1:0H]

15 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/2]

16 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/2]

17 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/2:0]

18 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/2:0H]

19 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/3]

20 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/3]

21 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/3:0]

22 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/3:0H]

23 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/4]

24 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/4]

25 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/4:0]

26 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/4:0H]

27 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/5]

28 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/5]

29 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/5:0]

30 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/5:0H]

31 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/6]

32 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/6]

33 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/6:0]

34 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/6:0H]

35 rt/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [migration/7]

36 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [ksoftirqd/7]

37 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/7:0]

38 be/0 root 0.00 B/s 0.00 B/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/7:0H]

korsakov@idia:~$ sudo vmstat 1 10

procs –---------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----

r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa

5 0 0 405288 27888 317844 0 0 0 1 70 12 59 0 39 0

5 0 0 405288 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 5508 51 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405288 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 5017 41 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405288 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 5020 38 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 5344 36 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 6068 39 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 12 5191 48 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 4 5388 54 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 6023 34 62 0 37 0

5 0 0 405412 27888 317844 0 0 0 0 6019 36 62 0 37 0

korsakov@idia:~$ sudo free -m

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 1000 604 396 0 27 310

-/+ buffers/cache: 267 733

Swap: 511 0 511

korsakov@idia:~$ sudo ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -5

mysql 2071 0.0 2.9 200700 30092 ? Ssl Jul30 0:49 /usr/sbin/mysqld

www-data 15580 0.0 2.1 45676 21656 ? S 14:32 0:01 _ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

www-data 15017 1.5 2.1 45660 21816 ? S 13:07 2:25 _ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

www-data 14792 1.4 2.1 45196 21916 ? S 11:28 3:41 _ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

www-data 15581 0.0 2.0 45140 20636 ? S 14:32 0:00 _ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start

korsakov@idia:~$ sudo ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -5

root 11926 100 0.1 29300 1532 ? Sl 00:53 893:27 /usr/bin/logax -b 10 -r -i 180 -m 500000 -s /var/log/apache2/openpanel /var/log/apache2/openpanel/logs

root 11251 100 0.1 29300 1532 ? Sl Jul30 972:46 /usr/bin/logax -b 10 -r -i 180 -m 500000 -s /var/log/apache2/openpanel /var/log/apache2/openpanel/logs

root 10936 100 0.1 30324 1536 ? Sl Jul30 1020:00 /usr/bin/logax -b 10 -r -i 180 -m 500000 -s /var/log/apache2/openpanel /var/log/apache2/openpanel/logs

root 10068 100 0.1 29300 1532 ? Sl Jul30 1025:34 /usr/bin/logax -b 10 -r -i 180 -m 500000 -s /var/log/apache2/openpanel /var/log/apache2/openpanel/logs

root 11933 99.6 0.1 30324 1500 ? Sl 00:53 890:29 | _ /usr/bin/logax -b 10 -r -i 180 -m 500000 -s /var/log/apache2/openpanel /var/log/apache2/openpanel/logs

korsakov@idia:~$ sudo top -b -n 1 | head -n 15

[sudo] password for korsakov:

top - 16:26:24 up 17:55, 2 users, load average: 5.00, 5.01, 5.05

Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

Cpu(s): 59.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 39.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 1.7%st

Mem: 1024884k total, 614740k used, 410144k free, 28124k buffers

Swap: 524284k total, 0k used, 524284k free, 321516k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

10068 root 20 0 29300 1532 1304 S 100 0.1 1065:29 logax

10936 root 20 0 30324 1536 1308 S 100 0.1 1059:56 logax

11251 root 20 0 29300 1532 1308 S 100 0.1 1012:41 logax

11926 root 20 0 29300 1532 1308 S 100 0.1 933:23.15 logax

11933 root 20 0 30324 1500 1284 S 98 0.1 930:24.82 logax

16605 root 20 0 2616 1092 812 R 2 0.1 0:00.07 top

1 root 20 0 2756 1632 1228 S 0 0.2 0:02.88 init

2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd

Please help!

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A quick google brings me to http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/991 which suggests it's part of openpanel. Did you install that?

Yes, I installed OpenPanel

I found a thread on OpenPanel bugs site…

There's a solution. I will try it out

http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/1082

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