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    out of swap space ??

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Gertjan
      last edited by johnpoz

      @gertjan said in out of swap space ??:

      As ssoon as it uses ONE byte, consider you system not stable,

      Not sure I would completely agree with that ;)

      But yeah if your using swap - something is out of norm.. Now you launch some stuff to do something out of the norm, and hey some stuff goes to swap for a bit, ok.. But yeah if your constantly using swap you should rethink what your doing.

      what is using swap?

      if you run top, and then hit w

      top.jpg

      Do you actually have a day to day need for ntop? I would only run that when troubleshooting something, or looking for specific information - are you monitoring for something that it needs to be running 24/7?

      An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
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        grandrivers @johnpoz
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        @johnpoz Its done it twice with NTOPNG Disabled this is a config moved maybe 3 months ago off a machine with 8gig ram never an issue on it its recent issue maybe july seems it kills unbound pfblockerdev and ntopng if ntops not running it kills pfblocker and unbound

        pfsense 2.4 super micro A1SRM-2558F
        C2558 8gig ECC  60gig SSD
        tripple Wan dual pppoe

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @grandrivers
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          @grandrivers so what is swapping that uses up all your swap space? did you run the top command?

          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @johnpoz
            last edited by

            @johnpoz said in out of swap space ??:

            so what is swapping that uses up all your swap space?

            @grandrivers

            out of swap space ??

            The question is now well defined 😊

            @grandrivers when you reply here, please add the answer.

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              grandrivers @Gertjan
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              @gertjan I have to catch it again was using swap but not using all the ram according to gui have to fire putty up and watch . I did delete packages and install them again

              pfsense 2.4 super micro A1SRM-2558F
              C2558 8gig ECC  60gig SSD
              tripple Wan dual pppoe

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan @grandrivers
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                @grandrivers said in out of swap space ??:

                I did delete packages and install them again

                Packages can't be broken, as such a situation would take the system down fast.
                The issue is nearly always : the (your) settings.

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                  grandrivers @Gertjan
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                  @gertjan I have determined that its pfblockerng-devel and dnsbl and also unbound I have not made anychanges to those that were running on 8gig of ram just fine so have to dig into those

                  pfsense 2.4 super micro A1SRM-2558F
                  C2558 8gig ECC  60gig SSD
                  tripple Wan dual pppoe

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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan @grandrivers
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                    @grandrivers said in out of swap space ??:

                    I have not made anychanges to those

                    No changes to "pfblockerng-deve" means : it does nothing.

                    You'll be seeing this :

                    0bf6084f-8400-49e0-b05c-14b272c0b95a-image.png

                    Actually, it does something : occupying disk space.

                    About unbound : See here.

                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                      grandrivers @Gertjan
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                      @gertjan

                      I was NOT CLEAR this is NOT a new install this is a config I have been running for years and was working. I moved that config file via the builtin automatic backup to new hard ware MONTHS ago and it run fine till somewhere in the early part of July only changes have been too upgrade pfsense development version I have not made changes to working setting of pfblockerng-devel

                      pfsense 2.4 super micro A1SRM-2558F
                      C2558 8gig ECC  60gig SSD
                      tripple Wan dual pppoe

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan @grandrivers
                        last edited by Gertjan

                        @grandrivers said in out of swap space ??:

                        upgrade pfsense development version

                        Yeah, right - oops - I didn't saw you posted in the "2.7.0" forum.
                        My comment is meaningless.
                        Can't help you much with 2.7.0 as it is bleeding edge technology.
                        And ones in a while the latest build is a bummer, and forces you to take the next nightly build, with could be fine, or have some issues else where.

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Check the Status > Monitoring graphs for RAM usage over time. You may be hitting a memory leak.

                          Steve

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