CPU MAXING OUT

So I have probably about 150 mikrotiks gateway in the field. They all run great however every so often one or two like to max there cpu out. I have no idea why this would happen or where to look for this specific issue as it only seems to happen on certain GW and there configs look the same as the rest of my GWs.

The first process that will max out one is the L7-matcher this happens on only one of my GWs. I have trued everything to get it to stop and can not. I have turned off my hotspot all firewall rules and it still just sits there. I even disabled my LAN ports so my only connection was the wan and still L7 was maxing out my cpu.

The other process is the DNS I have compared the GW to other another one with twice as many active useres and everything looks the same so I am not sure why DNS would be maxing out

is it possible that you have “allow remote requests” enabled on your dns settings and someone externally is running dns shinanigans thru your gateway overloading both your layer 7 and dns services for the same reason?

Well we are pulling apart the configs 1x1 so far for the DNS cpu maxing out we somehow had proxy-arp enabled on the hotspot we set it back to arp and that one is now working fine. When we figure out the L7 i will post back thanks.