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    • KOMK Offline
      KOM
      last edited by

      That something I can do for drop this ?

      Uninstall some packages that are chewing up your memory?  My 2.2.4 is at 11% of 2GB, and I have squid, squidGuard, Sarg & Lightsquid running.

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      • M Offline
        Magny
        last edited by

        PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C  TIME  WCPU COMMAND
          11 root    171 ki31    0K    16K RUN    1 1292.4 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
          11 root    171 ki31    0K    16K CPU0    0 1291.7 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
        70513 root      45    0 84528K 26588K piperd  1  0:06  0.59% /usr/local/bin/php{php}
          12 root    -32    -    0K  144K WAIT    0 132:01  0.00% [intr{swi4: clock}]
        74694 proxy    64  20  426M  417M kqread  1 121:16  0.00% (squid-1) -f /usr/pbi/squid-i386/etc/squid/
            0 root    -68    0    0K    88K -      0  26:56  0.00% [kernel{em0 que}]
          12 root    -68    -    0K  144K WAIT    0  23:19  0.00% [intr{irq21: skc0}]
          22 root      20    -    0K    8K syncer  1  13:56  0.00% [syncer]
        21893 root      64  20  3264K  1272K select  0  12:48  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger
        75517 root      76  20  3644K  1332K wait    1  10:51  0.00% /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
          12 root    -44    -    0K  144K WAIT    1  7:04  0.00% [intr{swi1: netisr 1}]
          14 root    -16    -    0K    8K -      1  5:08  0.00% [yarrow]
          12 root    -32    -    0K  144K WAIT    0  4:30  0.00% [intr{swi4: clock}]
          16 root    -16    -    0K    8K tzpoll  1  3:25  0.00% [acpi_thermal]
          260 root      76  20  3352K  1204K kqread  1  2:56  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/check_reload_status
            3 root      -8    -    0K    8K -      0  2:38  0.00% [g_up]
        47083 root      44    0  5620K  3556K select  1  2:23  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/racoon -f /var/etc/ipsec/ra
        94106 root      44    0  3412K  1396K select  1  2:07  0.00% /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -c -c -l /var/dhcpd/va

        That my System Activity whcih should I uninstall ?

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        • KOMK Offline
          KOM
          last edited by

          Showing me a list of system processes isn't that helpful.

          Which version of pfSense, and i386 or x64?
          What packages, if any, do you have installed? (System - Packages - Installed Packages)
          If you reboot the unit, does it come back up at 85% or does it crawl upwards over time?
          What does Status - RRD Graphs - System - Memory show?  Is the memory usage flat or does it climb over time?

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          • M Offline
            Magny
            last edited by

            Version : x64
            Package Install : pfBlocker - squid3-dev - squidGuard-devel
            When i restart the same thing happen.

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            • D Offline
              doktornotor Banned
              last edited by

              Yeah, either remove the Squid* stuff or get some decent RAM.

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              • H Offline
                heper
                last edited by

                @doktornotor:

                Yeah, either remove the Squid* stuff or get some decent RAM.

                426M   417M kqread  1 121:16  0.00% (squid-1) -f /usr/pbi/squid-i386/etc/squid/
```  <- squid proxy is using 417 mbyte allready
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                • M Offline
                  Magny
                  last edited by

                  Thanks Guys,

                  i will remove it and i will check if it will drop my memory usage.

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                  • KOMK Offline
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    By default, squid only uses 8MB or something.  And like I said earlier, I'm running squid3 and squidGuard, and only using 11% of 2GB.  Magny, what do you have for Services - Proxy Server - Local Cache - Squid Memory Cache Settings - Memory cache size?

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                    • M Offline
                      Magny
                      last edited by

                      Memory cache size
                      8

                      This is the amount of physical RAM (in megabytes) to be used for negative cache and in-transit objects. This value should not exceed more than 50% of the installed RAM. The minimum value is 1MB.
                      Maximum object size in RAM
                      32

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                        doktornotor Banned
                        last edited by

                        @KOM:

                        By default, squid only uses 8MB or something.

                        http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory

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                        • KOMK Offline
                          KOM
                          last edited by

                          Yes, I know but users usually tune this particular option so it's what I check first.  It still shouldn't be a problem if he has used the default 16x256 cache structure.

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