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      netermin @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz Thanks for your answers friends, I will monitor it.

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @netermin
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        Let us know how it looks in a few days..

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          netermin @johnpoz
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          @johnpoz Surely yes

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            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @netermin
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            What version of pfsense are you running exactly? Also is there some specific reason you have Kernel PTI enabled? There really should be no case where that would really come into play with firewall.. While I would doubt it would cause what your seeing, I would next time your planning on rebooting that you disable it.. Unless you feel better with it enabled - but there will be some sort of performance impact with that enabled.. What that % is have no idea..

            Personally I have mine disabled, as I don't see any point to it on my firewall box.

            edit: Also a bit curious what is using up your disk space... You say you have no packages installed?

            Your using 2% of 50G and and 10% of your var - Im at 3% of half your disk space, and 0% var..

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              netermin @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz I will disable it when I reboot, what was taking up space was the Snort log, which was installed but is no longer installed.

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                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @netermin
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                @netermin said in High RAM consumption:

                Snort log, which was installed but is no longer installed.

                Had you rebooted since uninstalling that? Maybe that was what was sucking up your ram? Wild ass guess on my part there ;)

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                  netermin @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz I had not restarted it since I removed snort, I have other pfsense in other clients, it has lightsquid, bandwidthd, ntopng, netdata and the memory does not go above 18%, it is true that this one has 2.5.0-RELEASE (amd64 because I am using wireguard).

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                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @netermin
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                    Wireguard was removed ;)

                    I have no experience with wireguard when it comes to memory usage.. And there were some issues with the wireguard - which is why it was removed.. I do believe there is some package to get it working on current 2.5.1 release? And sure at some point it will back as part of base install.

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                      netermin @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz Yes I know, I tell you what I have installed and the version I'm using and pfsense does not consume memory, compared to the other that has nothing installed and the memory does not go below 78%.

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                        netermin @johnpoz
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                        @johnpoz Hi my friend, I have restarted pfsense and now the ram is at 7%, I will monitor it and let you know.

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                          paulvijayji
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                          Thanks for your answers

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