Reboot or more memory?
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Is it possible I need to reboot this firewall or is the memory or hardware maxing out? It looks like it just needs more memory since the CPU load is low.
If the above just needs memory, that's a quick fix but if the hardware is maxing out. These are my other available server options before having to buy something else.
Server 1: One E3-1230V2 CPU with 16GB memory
Server 2: One E5-2660 CPU (up to 128GB)Based on starring at the Traffic Graph, I believe I'm seeing what seems to be on average up to 2M incoming and around 10M outgoing but it's not a stat, it's just constantly changing speeds.
Guess I need to use the Monitoring function to find that.
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@lewis what is the output from "ps aux"? What's using up most of your RAM?
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Hi, What I see as the top mem process is;
root 4848 0.0 84.0 8546056 6984296 v0- S 1Oct21 74:31.74 /usr/local/sbin/pcscd
The second seems negligible;
root 85696 0.3 2.1 315456 177040 - Ss 1Oct21 5773:12.23 /usr/local/bin/ntopng
The rest, unless I'm not catching it in time are pretty much all 0.x.
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@lewis Yeah, thats a known bug that will be fixed in 2.6 which releases very very soon (days/weeks).
If you reboot the problem it temporarily resolved. There is a patch for the problem, but as I said, the next version has it fixed.
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@lewis if you search pcscd and memory on this forum you’ll find a lot of posts with the same problem
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Oh, that's nice to hear. I was nervous I might have a lot of work ahead of me.
Thank you. I'll search and see if there is a way to temp fix this without a reboot.
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@keyser No need to reboot. there's a patch! Well, you have to reboot to apply the patch but ... it will resolve the issue.
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From reading some posts, it looks like I don't even have to reboot.
If not using ipsec, one can disable the pcscd (PC/SC Smart Card Daemon) service. I did that and memory usage dropped to 9%. -
@lewis which will work until you have to reboot and then you're back at square one.
the patch will keep the service from even starting unneccessarily. I've used it on a number of field devices. -
Yes, I understand that but this firewall rarely gets rebooted so I can live with that.
Does anyone know if the system upgrade will work from 2.52 to this new version that will come out?
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@lewis We've been actively testing it and so far it has worked without issue.
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@rcoleman-netgate said in Reboot or more memory?:
@keyser No need to reboot. there's a patch! Well, you have to reboot to apply the patch but ... it will resolve the issue.
How do i find the patch info/number in the linked "redmine" ?
Will the patch work for 2.5.2-CE ?This is my first patch attempt ....
pscd is "only" using 3.6G of 8GB , and i'm not even using ipsec.
Found it ....
The "strikethrough" confused me ??
I suppose it means that that "Bug is resolved or closed" or ??I also applied , and ran a "reroot"
TIA
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@bingo600 said in Reboot or more memory?:
How do i find the patch info/number in the linked "redmine" ?
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@bingo600 Whoops.
I grabbed the 2nd redmine for it but @stephenw10 gave you the correct one -
Works fine just turning off the service if you don't reboot on a regular basis. I went from really high to 8/9% memory use since yesterday.
