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Part 121: AIEE something munches my home router CPU, Zabbix to the rescue!

By whatsuphome | 11:03 PM EEST, Mon May 19, 2025
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Lately my home router ASUS AX-68U with Asuswrt-Merlin firmware has been using much more CPU than it used to do. It's not being slow or anything, but I'm curious how its CPU usage jumped since I last updated the firmware. This kind of jump in CPU usage cannot be a coincidence and definitely something that I want to track down. Below is a graph from my home Zabbix dashboard.

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