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    Wrong RAM size

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      Impovich
      last edited by Impovich

      Hi all, running pfSense in xcp-ng. Initially, there were 8GIG of RAM allocated to the VM, after some time I decided to reduce it to 4GIG, but the dashboard shows that I have 8GIG with increased usage which is not true. Is there any solution for this?

      [2.5.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.lan]/root: sysctl hw.physmem
hw.physmem: 8521355264
[2.5.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.home.lan]/root: sysctl hw | egrep 'hw.(phys|user|real)'
hw.physmem: 8521355264
hw.usermem: 7836835840
hw.realmem: 8585740288
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        AKEGEC @Impovich
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        @impovich it's usually stuck at the memory. Try to reboot.

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          Impovich @AKEGEC
          last edited by Impovich

          @akegec Since memory size was reduced pfsense was restarted multiple times and the server was powered off, the glitch still exists even after update from 2.5 to 2.5.1.

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            Impovich @Impovich
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            Found a solution, it's not enough to change memory size for the PfSense VM under the "General" tab in XCP-NG. Under "Advanced" tab there are "Memory limits (min/max)" that should be set accordingly.

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