Winbox - CPU load problems

jager · Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:05 pm

Hi,
I`ve recently upgraded from 2.8.27 to 2.9.6, and almost everything went fine.
The only unreasonable problem is that when I connect with Winbox, the CPU load on router goes up to 100%, and winbox crashes.
The router is Intel P4 2.8Ghz 1Gig RAM
Connecting through ssh or webbox makes no CPU overload.

Any suggestions?
Please help.

wildbill442 · Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:24 pm

I see the same when connecting to a RB532 board.. Although, it only peaks for about a second and then drops when its done establishing the connection. I'm running 2.9.6 as well..

jager · Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:33 pm

Does your winbox crashes also, or it continues to work?

g3 · Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:06 am

I see the same when connecting to a RB532 board.. Although, it only peaks for about a second and then drops when its done establishing the connection. I'm running 2.9.6 as well..

I have the same problem, the mikrotik support told me that in the next version (2.9.7) they will solve several problems related with the use of the cpu.... we have to wait

jager · Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:24 am

Very interesting situation: Now it is 5:20AM and I have only 38 PPPoE users online at the moment. With this number of users, CPU load is arround 10%, and for the last 20 minutes Winbox is working OK! It is true that it responds a bit slower than in 2.8.27, but at least it WORKS without crashing!
I hope Mikrotik support reads this post

It looks like heavy load crashes Winbox in 2.9.6 for some reason.......

jager · Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:26 am

I have the same problem, the mikrotik support told me that in the next version (2.9.7) they will solve several problems related with the use of the cpu.... we have to wait

My upgrade license expires Dec/01/2005
I hope they will finish 2.9.7 soon

jager · Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:54 pm

Downloading 2.9.7 right now ... I hope it will solve the problem...
Will let u know

jager · Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:34 pm

With 2.9.7 winbox lasts a little longer. Sometimes it runs for several minutes, bet crashes anyway

Anybody have ANY idea on this issue??

wildbill442 · Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:29 am

With 2.9.7 winbox lasts a little longer. Sometimes it runs for several minutes, bet crashes anyway
Anybody have ANY idea on this issue??

remove winbox.exe and remove all the related files along with it. Download winbox.exe from the router's webpage (to get the latest version) and then try reconnecting..

When winbox crashes its usually due to corrupt plugin files that it downloads from the router. Just uninstall/reinstall

Mikrotik directory: %userprofile%\Application Data\Mikrotik

Remove the entire Mikrotik directory.

jager · Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:14 pm

Thank you for this tip, but unfortunately, this will not be the solution

I already done that, and the most interesting thing is, that when I connect via winbox on two different computers to the same router, both winboxes crashes at the same time!
The problem is obviously in the router

wildbill442 · Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:53 pm

I don't think that the router is going to cause winbox to crash.. Winbox is run locally on your client PC and just talks to the router over TCP port 8291... I don't see how the router could crash winbox...

Are you connecting to the router over multiple WAN links? or are you connecting on the LAN side of the router?

changeip · Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:15 pm

Maybe the plugins that it downloads from the router are corrupted. Just a wild guess. If you want to run a CRC against them I will verify against ours.

Sam

jager · Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:02 pm

Maybe the plugins that it downloads from the router are corrupted. Just a wild guess. If you want to run a CRC against them I will verify against ours.

Sam

Not a so wild guess

I dont know how to run a CRC. Please give a little help. Thanx

changeip · Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:03 pm

I use this one which is an excellent context menu add-on:

http://www.sirocco.force9.co.uk/#CrcShExt

Go to properties in explorer for each file and you'll see a file CRC tab - grab the value for each and paste em im and I'll validate against my copy. I am running 2.9.7.

Sam

jager · Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:49 pm

Here are CRC`s for my files (2.9.7):

winbox.exe
Hex: 9D8E87B7
Dec: 2643363767

Interesting, but in C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mikrotik\Winbox\2.9.7 i have a .crc file for each DLL, but the content of those .crc`s is not equal to those I got with the addon??

advtool.dll
Hex:C0743C6C
Dec:3228843116
.crc:1654977580

arlan.dll
Hex: A59C5FCD
Dec: 2778488781
.crc: 3192635873

dhcp.dll
Hex: FA57F871
Dec: 4200069233
.crc: 2394256380

hotspot.dll
Hex:6D353DAD
Dec: 1832205741
.crc: 1092707268

isdn.dll
Hex: B1E6EAFE
Dec: 2984700670
.crc: 3573915302

lcd.dll
Hex: 4DE662AF
Dec: 1306944175
.crc: 4073493106

ntp.dll
Hex: BAB50582
Dec: 3132425602
.crc: 2473680175

phone.dll
Hex: C2886764
Dec: 3263719268
.crc: 4153239013

ppp.dll
Hex: 91DFC077
Dec: 2447360119
.crc: 2570678772

radlan.dll
Hex: 77630C68
Dec: 2002979944
.crc: 3997753736

roteros.dll
Hex: 052A2AA8
Dec: 86649512
.crc: 2773102207

routing.dll
Hex: 0977BE20
Dec: 158842400
.crc: 3426153082

rtboard.dll
Hex: 31FDBD9E
Dec: 838712734
.crc: 2682020874

secure.dll
Hex: 4D658568
Dec: 1298498920
.crc: 1139450610

sync.dll
Hex: F819CAB1
Dec: 4162439857
.crc: 2020594340

system.dll
Hex: 46A310B5
Dec: 1185091765
.crc: 4042489328

ups.dll
Hex: 6623EC3B
Dec: 1713630267
.crc: 1616335248

wlan.dll
Hex: F5AF5847
Dec: 4121909319
.crc: 763630173

wproxy.dll
Hex: 233605B7
Dec: 590742967
.crc: 2033957287

Well, this was a hard copy/paste work

PLEASE, compare it to your CRC files. After all, there is a chance that some of the files are corrupted.
Thanks a million!

changeip · Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:43 pm

From the ones that I had they all matched, EXCEPT sync.dll / sync.crc.

Very interesting that MT uses CRC files as well, glad to see this... I never even knew those were there.

Anyhow, SYNC.DLL does not match the CRC value I have for mine. Maybe this is a problem - I am not sure what sync.dll is used for.

You might also want to remove any packages you are not using, ie isdn ? Are you using arlan? hotspot? lcd? telephony ?

If you remove those downloaded files does it redownload the same CRC next time? Maybe its time to remove most packages from router and reupload them.

BTW - sync.crc is 1576911284 on my machine.

Sam

jager · Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:16 am

Whatever the problem was, it is FIXED in 2.9.8 !!!!!!
I have just upgraded to the latest release, and winbox haven`t crash for about 30 minutes. Before the upgrade, winbox crashed after max 2 minutes!
I am so happy

Thank you for this bugfix!!!

Winbox - CPU load problems

Winbox - CPU load problems

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