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      thinair
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      0.92

      And I turned ntop off, and it's the same actually, I guess it has nothing to do with ntop.  I don't know why I didn't turn it off before posting….damn assumptions. ::)

      Nelson Papel

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        sullrich
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        @thinair:

        0.92

        And I turned ntop off, and it's the same actually, I guess it has nothing to do with ntop.  I don't know why I didn't turn it off before posting….damn assumptions. ::)

        Run top and see if you see anything bursting to the upper top of the list every second.

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          thinair
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          php is the only one that stays on top with 0.3-0.4%

          Nelson Papel

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            thinair
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            I rebooted the firewall, things seem ok now.  I stood there for like a minute, no activity.  When I ran top, top was the top programming running…..

            Nelson Papel

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              sullrich
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              @thinair:

              php is the only one that stays on top with 0.3-0.4%

              Do this from a shell (option 8 from ssh or console):

              fetch -o ~/test.sh http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/find_php.sh
              chmod a+rx ~/test.sh  && ~/test.sh

              Look for which process is taking up the most time.  mini_httpd will show up all the time so somewhat discard that one.

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                sullrich
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                Actually, do that from a SSH session.

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                  thinair
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                  php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd.  And that was from SSH.

                  Nelson Papel

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                    sullrich
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                    @thinair:

                    php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd.  And that was from SSH.

                    Hrm.  Very strange.

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                      thinair
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                      It the hdd activity light starts flashing often again, I'll retry those commands and post the results.

                      As a note, it didn't seem to matter if my connection was idle or active either.

                      Nelson Papel

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                        ZGamer
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                        when in doubt reboot;). How long after you reboot does it do this?

                        Memory glitch??…it's a guess.

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                          Cojo
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                          I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
                          I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

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                            hoba
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                            what's your amount of ram?

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                              Cojo
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                              I have 256Mb of ram.

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                                Criggie
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                                @Cojo:

                                I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
                                I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

                                I had a similar problem ages ago with a 0.8 series.  Turned out that the firewall couldn't resolve the ntp server address because the dns servers were not right/reachable.

                                So my advice is just search for anything thats wrong.

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                                  Criggie
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                                  @thinair:

                                  • Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?

                                  Apparently you can tell the system to mount the CF card r/o and only mount it r/w while a config change happens.

                                  To do that you put the single word wrap into /etc/platform

                                  echo wrap > /etc/platform

                                  But that made no difference for me even after a restart.

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                                    hoba
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                                    it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

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                                      Criggie
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                                      @hoba:

                                      it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

                                      Marvellous thank you.  How do I mount / rw for a bit if I want to change stuff?
                                        mount / -o remount,rw
                                      doesn't do it.  (yeah I'm a linux hoe)

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                                        hoba
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                                        /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
                                        /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

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                                          sullrich
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                                          Use Diagnostics -> Edit file from the webConfigurator, it does this automatically when you save the file.

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