'confd' process consumes CPU at high level on Gaia OS due to large size of Gaia Database

          Symptoms

• Gaia machine does not respond to SNMP requests, and /var/log/messages file repeatedly shows:
  snmpd: Error: Timeout waiting for response from database server
  
• Gaia Cloning Groups can not be synchronized.
  
• Output of "top" command / or "ps auxw" command shows that "confd" process consumes CPU at high level on Gaia OS
  
  
  Solution
  
  
  This problem was fixed. The fix is included in:
  
• Check Point R77.30 and higher
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R77.20 - since Take_86
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R77.10 - since Take_116
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R77 - since Take_41
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R76 - since Take_64For lower supported versions, Check Point Support can supply a Hotfix.

However if you don't want to install the hotfix immediately but need to fix this issue, read along.....