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    Removing RAM from an installation

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      creepwood
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      Currenly I'm using 2x4GB in my pfsense router and I'm considering to downgrading these to 2x1GB instead. Looking at the memory usage right now it's 3% of 8GB.

      What I'm wondering is, did the installation set any parameters based on an 8GB installation of pfsense that I'm now bound to use 8GB?

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        kpa
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        The underlying FreeBSD OS does not care, it will autodetect and autotune whatever there is to autotune depending on the amount of currently installed RAM.  There might be some parameters derived for installed packages but I can't help with those since I don't use any of the more advanced packages like the Squid proxy.

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          creepwood
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          @kpa:

          The underlying FreeBSD OS does not care, it will autodetect and autotune whatever there is to autotune depending on the amount of currently installed RAM.  There might be some parameters derived for installed packages but I can't help with those since I don't use any of the more advanced packages like the Squid proxy.

          That is good news. I don't have any packages installed except one that exports vpn settings. Thank you so much for the reply. It means I can up my home server with 8GB and run my pfsense on 2GB :)

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