I would like to know this…
Pretty sure that’s not normal, indeed.
Certain ipsec devices try to keep their VPN open at all time, to avoid mounting then and generate high latency when traffic comes. Depending on how ikev2 is implemented/configured, this could mean very frequent certificate exchanges, secret exchanges and key generations.
While these operation are not massive, they can definitely have an impact on lower end or embedded CPUs. This varies as well depending on the key generation methods (entropy gathering for example) and key size as well.
However, what you are describing really seems out of the norm.
Does the application allow you to control the encryption protocols and ciphers? Are they set to very high security encryption levels?
So I have problems with update prompts from them to this day, but glad you figured it out!
Can’t remember; mostly I remember that I select the TAP adapter and have it launch at startup. I doubt I changed any other options.
I should also note that I’m running it in a VM.
how could it be normal? why would it stop when i poke at the app, esp. when other network-using apps are still running?
They’re set to minimums. I think AES-128 for general traffic.
But it doesn’t matter whether there’s a lot of traffic or not. I can watch network activity in task manager or on my router (up/down bandwidth) and see that it there’s no relation to bandwidth consumed - at least, subjectively. I would have a much easier time accepting it if it was proportional to mb/s or packet count or something.
Evidently I didn’t. It’s happening still, even on the current version. The logic / tuning may have changed but it’s still stealing CPU. And power. And patience.
I am as well, actually. Via Virtualbox.
By the way, so far your change seems to be working!
He said not normal unless he’s edited his response.
Sounds like it’s bad code or doing thing something it shouldn’t be. I guess it could be mining crypto. Unlikely though. If Procmon doesn’t show any file system activity then it’s likely bad code
Weird I’m totally fine. Firefox, Vivaldi, steam, and everything else, I get a spike on occasion but not indefinitely.