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    Is high memory usage normal?

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    • emammadovE
      emammadov
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      Hello,

      I newly installed pfSense 2.4.3 with 3 interfaces (WAN, Lan, Opt1) and configured every setting. I noticed memory usage increases by itself.  I am using Squid, Squidguard, ntopng, pfblockerng. I run command "top -aSHo size" and see there are 3 clamd and multiple ntopng processor eating ram. Is it normal? Please help.


      last pid: 65372;  load averages:  0.03,  0.15,  0.18  up 0+17:24:25    10:55:44
      505 processes: 5 running, 470 sleeping, 30 waiting

      Mem: 708M Active, 265M Inact, 1257M Wired, 292K Buf, 5676M Free
      ARC: 409M Total, 301M MFU, 90M MRU, 2456K Anon, 1532K Header, 13M Other
          309M Compressed, 522M Uncompressed, 1.69:1 Ratio
      Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

      PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C  TIME    WCPU COMMAND
      78319 clamav      20    0  636M  547M select  1  2:53  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/clamd –config-file=/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf{clamd}
      78319 clamav      20    0  636M  547M select  2  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/clamd --config-file=/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf{clamd}
      78319 clamav      20    0  636M  547M uwait  2  0:00  0.00% /usr/local/sbin/clamd --config-file=/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf{clamd}
        324 root        20    0  287M 46080K accept  1  0:25  0.00% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm){php-fpm}
        325 root        31    0  285M 43692K accept  2  0:23  0.00% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm){php-fpm}
      67970 root        21    0  285M 43680K piperd  1  0:20  0.29% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm){php-fpm}
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  3  0:01  0.68% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M nanslp  3  4:45  0.10% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M nanslp  3  3:00  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  1  0:44  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  2  0:43  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  0  0:43  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M nanslp  1  0:22  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M nanslp  2  0:11  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  3  0:11  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  1  0:11  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M uwait  3  0:10  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net
      76165 root        20    0  283M  161M bpf    1  0:08  0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i re0 -i re1 -i em0 --dns-mode 0 --local-net

      Elvin

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