Reboot or more memory?
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@lewis what is the output from "ps aux"? What's using up most of your RAM?
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Hi, What I see as the top mem process is;
root 4848 0.0 84.0 8546056 6984296 v0- S 1Oct21 74:31.74 /usr/local/sbin/pcscd
The second seems negligible;
root 85696 0.3 2.1 315456 177040 - Ss 1Oct21 5773:12.23 /usr/local/bin/ntopng
The rest, unless I'm not catching it in time are pretty much all 0.x.
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@lewis Yeah, thats a known bug that will be fixed in 2.6 which releases very very soon (days/weeks).
If you reboot the problem it temporarily resolved. There is a patch for the problem, but as I said, the next version has it fixed.
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@lewis if you search pcscd and memory on this forum you’ll find a lot of posts with the same problem
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Oh, that's nice to hear. I was nervous I might have a lot of work ahead of me.
Thank you. I'll search and see if there is a way to temp fix this without a reboot.
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@keyser No need to reboot. there's a patch! Well, you have to reboot to apply the patch but ... it will resolve the issue.
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From reading some posts, it looks like I don't even have to reboot.
If not using ipsec, one can disable the pcscd (PC/SC Smart Card Daemon) service. I did that and memory usage dropped to 9%. -
@lewis which will work until you have to reboot and then you're back at square one.
the patch will keep the service from even starting unneccessarily. I've used it on a number of field devices. -
Yes, I understand that but this firewall rarely gets rebooted so I can live with that.
Does anyone know if the system upgrade will work from 2.52 to this new version that will come out?
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@lewis We've been actively testing it and so far it has worked without issue.
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@rcoleman-netgate said in Reboot or more memory?:
@keyser No need to reboot. there's a patch! Well, you have to reboot to apply the patch but ... it will resolve the issue.
How do i find the patch info/number in the linked "redmine" ?
Will the patch work for 2.5.2-CE ?This is my first patch attempt ....
pscd is "only" using 3.6G of 8GB , and i'm not even using ipsec.
Found it ....
The "strikethrough" confused me ??
I suppose it means that that "Bug is resolved or closed" or ??I also applied , and ran a "reroot"
TIA
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@bingo600 said in Reboot or more memory?:
How do i find the patch info/number in the linked "redmine" ?
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@bingo600 Whoops.
I grabbed the 2nd redmine for it but @stephenw10 gave you the correct one -
Works fine just turning off the service if you don't reboot on a regular basis. I went from really high to 8/9% memory use since yesterday.
