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    2.4.5 consume a lot more RAM comparing with 2.4.4

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      quangnd412
      last edited by quangnd412

      I have upgrade pfsense from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 today.
      I noticed that 2.4.5 consume a lot more RAM than 2.4.4
      The following image is the dashboard of 2.4.4
      d94f6dc9-612f-48cf-8ac4-65b6031877b2-image.png
      And the following is 2.4.5 on the same VM.
      3c0f9ec6-e539-4cd0-bf52-f5c0d79438f8-image.png
      On that installation, i only use site to site OpenVPN, and a LAN, a WAN interface.
      Is that normal or not?

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      • provelsP
        provels @quangnd412
        last edited by

        @quangnd412 I wouldn't sweat it. After all, you paid for 100%. Things change.

        Peder

        MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
        BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Mmm, that does not seem like a problem.

          Also, since it had not rebooted for >300 days, there might have been some other change that applied there that might have increased usage in 2.4.4p3 anyway had you rebooted first.
          That is one of the reasons why rebooting before upgrading is recommended:
          https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide.html#pre-upgrade-reboot
          A lot of users will assume an issue was caused by an upgrade that may in fact have been caused simply by rebooting.

          Steve

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            quangnd412 @stephenw10
            last edited by quangnd412

            @stephenw10 in other installation, i rebooted a week before upgrading, problem is the same.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Ok. And a similar increase in apparent consumption?

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                Kartoff
                last edited by

                Why only 4 GB ? Seems pretty small to me...

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                  quangnd412
                  last edited by

                  I calculate RAM consumption and discover that the previous versions show wrong RAM used percentage. This version add /tmp and /var that I configured to use RAM.

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                    quangnd412 @Kartoff
                    last edited by quangnd412

                    @Kartoff I only use basic firewall function and OpenVPN. That's all :)

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Ah, so if you include that the reported values are correct?

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                        quangnd412 @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 yeap, it is seem to be corrected. All the previous versions may be wrong

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