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    • J
      J7529
      last edited by

      @NogBadTheBad said in Error in logs:

      grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot

      When I do swapinfo I receive the following output:
      Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
      /dev/gptid/2b57240d-1623-11e8-b 1048536 824156 224380 79%

      Doing the second command doesn't give me any output.

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      • NogBadTheBadN
        NogBadTheBad
        last edited by

        What version of pfSense are you running ?

        It looks like you are running out of swap space, the following should tell you the process that's eating all your swap space.

        Run top -w, press o then type in swap

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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        • J
          J7529
          last edited by

          I am running 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2

          Running that cmd the top results flicks between Squid, ntopng & clamd

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          • NogBadTheBadN
            NogBadTheBad
            last edited by

            grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot should work.

            How much RAM do you have ?

            Andy

            1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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            • J
              J7529
              last edited by

              I have just tried running that command again but by tabbing out each word, I don't have a option for memory after typing grep

              I currently have it set to use 4GB RAM

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              • NogBadTheBadN
                NogBadTheBad @J7529
                last edited by

                @J7529 said in Error in logs:

                I have just tried running that command again but by tabbing out each word, I don't have a option for memory after typing grep

                I currently have it set to use 4GB RAM

                You probally need more RAM.

                Screenshot 2019-03-19 at 10.18.23.png

                Andy

                1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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                • J
                  J7529
                  last edited by

                  @NogBadTheBad said in Error in logs:

                  grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot

                  pfsense Memory.PNG

                  It looks like im using only 48% or am I looking at the wrong thing?

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                  • NogBadTheBadN
                    NogBadTheBad
                    last edited by NogBadTheBad

                    @J7529

                    The above screenshot is the current state, do you see errors in the log all the time ?

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging#Unix_and_Unix-like_systems

                    I have 8Gb of RAM and I never swap memory from RAM to disk.

                    Disable ntopng, does the swap usage change ?

                    Andy

                    1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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                    • J
                      J7529
                      last edited by

                      I see error logs maybe twice a day they have happened since I posted this,

                      When disabling ntopng the swap usage doesn't move but I have noticed that the SWAP usage is 1023 assuming if I upped the RAM this would increase automatically.

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                      • NogBadTheBadN
                        NogBadTheBad
                        last edited by NogBadTheBad

                        Upping the RAM causes memory staying in RAM and not being swapped out to swap ( RAM disk ).

                        Can you tie in the time stamps to what squid, ntopng or clamd might be doing ?

                        Andy

                        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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                        • J
                          J7529
                          last edited by

                          Just gone through the logs and can't see anything around the time where I received the swap errors

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