The original post: /r/pihole by /u/-genericuser- on 2025-01-20 10:50:18.

Hey,

I have a pihole on a 3b+ running for several years now. I updated last week and suddenly it’s not working consistently anymore.

A cuple of days after the update my whole network was unresponsive/not working. Piholes QueryLog showed everything as “Blocked. Database Busy”. I tried to restart but even that didn’t work. In the end I needed to pull the plug. After that it worked again.

I also deleted the ftl db since I though it may be too old and the logs were growing too large. But that didn’t help in the long run. It was working fine for now but the next morning I had the same problem again.

And today again. So every day I need to restart the system sinde my network is completely blocked by a busy database.

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/WTF5w24d

Any ideas how I can solve this?