Quick update on this issue…
We disabled the ability for users to initiate query of the audit log from the front end (Perspective Session) and that appeared to have resolved the issue with recurring gateway restarts.
However we found that using the view log feature from the Config > Security > Auditing gateway menu also causes the same issue (memory and CPU spike to 100% and the gateway restarts itself).
We have since disabled auditing in the project properties (for now) and set retention to 1 day in the configured audit profile to purge existing audit records (over the next day).
@PGriffith Ignition developers may want to be aware of the ability to crash the gateway by clicking on a built in feature in the gateway interface. Granted we have 642 million audit records due to having many (and frequent) scripted tag writes and that is likely abnormal for most implementations.
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