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      lewis @rcoleman-netgate
      last edited by lewis

      @rcoleman-netgate

      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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        keyser Rebel Alliance @lewis
        last edited by

        @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.

        Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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          keyser Rebel Alliance @lewis
          last edited by

          @lewis if you search pcscd and memory on this forum you’ll find a lot of posts with the same problem

          Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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            lewis @keyser
            last edited by lewis

            @keyser

            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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              rcoleman-netgate Netgate @keyser
              last edited by rcoleman-netgate

              @keyser No need to reboot. there's a patch! Well, you have to reboot to apply the patch but ... it will resolve the issue.

              https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12095

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                lewis @rcoleman-netgate
                last edited by

                @rcoleman-netgate

                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%.

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                  rcoleman-netgate Netgate @lewis
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                  @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.

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                    lewis @rcoleman-netgate
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                    @rcoleman-netgate

                    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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                      rcoleman-netgate Netgate @lewis
                      last edited by

                      @lewis We've been actively testing it and so far it has worked without issue.

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                        bingo600 @rcoleman-netgate
                        last edited by bingo600

                        @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.

                        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12095

                        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.

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                        Found it ....

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                        The "strikethrough" confused me ??
                        I suppose it means that that "Bug is resolved or closed" or ??

                        I also applied , and ran a "reroot"

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                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @bingo600
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                          @bingo600 said in Reboot or more memory?:

                          How do i find the patch info/number in the linked "redmine" ?

                          It's here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11933#note-7

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                            rcoleman-netgate Netgate @stephenw10
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                            @bingo600 Whoops.
                            I grabbed the 2nd redmine for it but @stephenw10 gave you the correct one

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                              lewis @rcoleman-netgate
                              last edited by lewis

                              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.

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