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    • chpalmerC
      chpalmer
      last edited by

      I have a customer on a 64 bit version and it behaves stupendously. Not one issue!  :)

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        Jason Crowley
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        We also have at least six other 64-bit installs that are working flawlessly.  A couple of them have fairly complicated configurations with ~10 interfaces, ~20 IPsec tunnels, 100s of firewall & NAT rules, traffic shaping, etc.  With all of that, they're still able to sustain 100Mb/s throughput easily.  I'm curious if there would be performance degradation moving from 64-bit to 32-bit.

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        • K
          kejianshi
          last edited by

          The problems I personally experienced were on 64bit version on ESXi 5.

          Same install, nothing else modified and it worked fine.  Tried several times.

          I couldn't solve it, so I just stayed with 32bit version.

          Sounds like your hypervisor isn't same, so probably depends.

          Also, the problems I had were mainly either with NTP or with nothing working well with 5 or more interfaces.

          There are just too many variables in hardware  and network to say anthing for sure for everybody, but as a rule, if I don't need 64bit, I use 32bit where I can.  As for it being a point of contention for this or that person, I say do whatever floats your boat and works for you.

          There won't be any performance losses.  64bit is just able to address more RAM.  Thats all.

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          • chpalmerC
            chpalmer
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            Jason: Did you ever solve this?

            I ended up just re-installing the firmware over the original install via the firmware page and that seems to have solved it for me here.

            My other watchguard "customer" had his unit do the same thing starting last Wednesday and build up to over 30% before we caught it.  Restarted Apinger and it has been normal since…

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              Jason Crowley
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              Since we've been through at least four firmware updates on this firewall and the problem still persists, I'm doubting a firmware reinstall will fix the problem.  I'm also pretty sure apinger is not the problem as I believe that would cause memory usage to spike in user space.  I'm seeing wired kernel memory balloon.

              My plan at this point is to build another near-identical firewall through the web gui, download the XML config from the new and old ones, and compare.  Maybe that will reveal some anomaly.  This XML has been pulled up through the 1.2 versions to 2.1.  Maybe something bad slipped through.

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                kejianshi
                last edited by

                My memory does exactly the same thing.  Looks like utilization climbs and climbs and then it hits about 90%, teeters there for a while and then will drop back down to about 30% all by its self, with no reset, reboot or anything and no ill effects and then the cycle starts again.  I don't worry about it.

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                • chpalmerC
                  chpalmer
                  last edited by

                  Im actually still seeing this intermittently on a couple of boxes.  Though last time it happened to me here it actually used up all memory before it reset itself.

                  But since Ive reset the webgui from a console it has not occurred.  Re-booting the box never solved it. In fact it would simply do the same right after the re-boot.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    When the memory usage is high, have you checked the process list to see what is using the RAM?

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                      firewalluser
                      last edited by

                      I'll chuck this in this mix as its running in a VM.
                      Brute force
                      http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=695

                      then how to reset the VM password which might be sat in a data centre and doesnt get checked often
                      http://blog.geekdiary.me/?p=21

                      because it might be running auto failover type of software like this:
                      http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html

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                      • chpalmerC
                        chpalmer
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                        @jimp:

                        When the memory usage is high, have you checked the process list to see what is using the RAM?

                        Just this-    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,67703.msg370496.html#msg370496

                        It hasn't happened since the webgui reset from the console so I cant look now. Im watching for it.

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                        • chpalmerC
                          chpalmer
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                          After some testing it seems the LCDProc package is causing this for me.

                          When I do a webgui reset the display goes to a screen that shows Cli: 0  Scr: 0 with no backlight. I didn't notice it till days after my initial webgui reset. Once I restarted the LCD package the memory leak started again. Reset tonight and Im going to leave the package in the inop state for a few weeks.

                          Running the dev package.

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