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    Memory Usage High in 22.01?

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    • areckethennuA Offline
      areckethennu
      last edited by areckethennu

      This isn't the end of the world, but since I've updated to 22.01 (fresh install), the memory usage on the dashboard has been bothering me. On this ProtectLi VP2410, I've got 8GB of memory and memory usage has very slowly inched up to about 15%. Again, it's not a huge amount, but that's a bit over 1GB.

      20220221 -- pfSense Status Dashboard.png

      20220221 -- pfSense Status Monitoring Memory.png

      If I run top from the command line, I get:

      Shell Output - top
last pid: 64516;  load averages:  0.29,  0.37,  0.31  up 2+03:55:50    18:31:19
60 processes:  1 running, 59 sleeping
CPU:  0.2% user,  0.2% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle
Mem: 87M Active, 318M Inact, 1044M Wired, 6029M Free
ARC: 323M Total, 151M MFU, 165M MRU, 33K Anon, 1271K Header, 5799K Other
     114M Compressed, 346M Uncompressed, 3.03:1 Ratio
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

      And, while I'm at it, why does 22.01 show just 3 of the 4 cores on this device for cpu utilization (see the dashboard and top)? 2.5.2 showed all 4. And, the dashboard shows the temperatures for all four.

      EDIT: I'd forget my own head .... I'm running pfBlockerNG-devel and WireGuard. During my upgrade process, I also switched to ZFS.

      I'm just a home user with pfSense 23.09-RELEASE (amd64) on a Protecli VP2410

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @areckethennu
        last edited by

        @areckethennu said in Memory Usage High in 22.01?:

        why does 22.01 show just 3 of the 4 cores on this device for cpu utilization (see the dashboard and top)?

        You mean the load average values?
        Those are not per core they are averages over 1, 5 and 15mins. It was the same in 2.5.2.

        Have a look at what's using that RAM. Using Diag > Sysetm Activity or ps -aux at the command line. Though 15% is hardly concerning really as you say.

        Steve

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        • areckethennuA Offline
          areckethennu @stephenw10
          last edited by stephenw10

          @stephenw10 Well, my face is red. Yep, I was looking at the load average. I had the totally wrong impression.

          ps -aux gives me (sorted by %mem and only showing non-zero values):

          ![06273b9a-aab9-4ff6-bb48-76dc9bd2ceaf-image.png](/assets/uploads/files/1645549600830-06273b9a-aab9-4ff6-bb48-76dc9bd2ceaf-image-resized.png) 
USER	PID	%CPU	%MEM	VSZ	RSS	TT	STAT	STARTED	TIME	COMMAND												
unbound	62448	0	2.5	230812	194184	-	Ss	12:16:00 AM	01:20.34	/usr/local/sbin/unbound	-c	/var/unbound/unbound.conf										
root	381	0	0.8	136748	63240	-	I	Sat14	01:49.11	php-fpm:	pool	nginx	(php-fpm)									
root	382	0	0.8	136572	62784	-	I	Sat14	01:50.57	php-fpm:	pool	nginx	(php-fpm)									
root	21177	0	0.8	136680	63044	-	S	Sun06	01:43.73	php-fpm:	pool	nginx	(php-fpm)									
root	9525	0	0.5	59288	41452	-	I	05:15:00 PM	00:00.13	/usr/local/bin/php_pfb	-f	/usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc	filterlog									
root	58820	0	0.5	59540	41680	-	Ss	09:05:00 AM	00:24.02	php_wg:	WireGuard	service	(php_wg)									
root	380	0	0.3	102784	27520	-	Ss	Sat14	00:04.89	php-fpm:	master	process	(/usr/local/lib/php-fpm.conf)	(php-fpm)								
root	32	0	0.1	0	5120	-	DL	Sat14	08:14.31	[zpool-pfSense]												
root	1074	0	0.1	17436	5440	-	IC	08:15:00 PM	00:00.00	/usr/local/libexec/sshg-parser												
root	16918	0	0.1	19788	8136	-	Is	Sat14	00:00.00	/usr/sbin/sshd												
root	18580	0	0.1	17764	7852	-	S	Sun16	04:01.04	/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd_pfb	-f	/var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl_lighty.conf										
root	29567	0	0.1	19108	7100	-	Ss	Sat14	00:12.89	/usr/local/sbin/ntpd	-g	-c	/var/etc/ntpd.conf	-p	/var/run/ntpd.pid							
root	30328	0	0.1	28388	7932	-	Is	Sat14	00:00.00	nginx:	master	process	/usr/local/sbin/nginx	-c	/var/etc/nginx-webConfigurator.conf	(nginx)						
root	30561	0	0.1	29716	10268	-	I	Sat14	00:11.10	nginx:	worker	process	(nginx)									
root	30727	0	0.1	29244	9860	-	S	Sat14	00:09.47	nginx:	worker	process	(nginx)									
dhcpd	70931	0	0.1	23400	11852	-	Ss	07:42:00 PM	00:03.24	/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd	-user	dhcpd	-group	_dhcp	-chroot	/var/dhcpd	-cf	/etc/dhcpd.conf	-pf	/var/run/dhcpd.pid	igb1	
dhcpd	73106	0	0.1	20444	9100	-	Ss	07:42:00 PM	00:02.83	/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd	-6	-user	dhcpd	-group	_dhcp	-chroot	/var/dhcpd	-cf	/etc/dhcpdv6.conf	-pf	/var/run/dhcpdv6.pid	igb1

          That only gives me a total of 7.2% memory use, while the dashboard and top claim 15% (it's almost all Wired and looks to add up to about that number).

          Here's a similar table for System Activity:

          ![014ec38d-f6b8-4f77-94b8-5fdabaaa69b2-image.png](Image dimensions are too big) 
PID	USERNAME	PRI	NICE	SIZE	RES	STATE	C	TIME	WCPU	COMMAND												
	11	root	155	ki31	0B	64K	CPU3	3	66.1H	100.00%	[idle{idle:	cpu3	]									
	11	root	155	ki31	0B	64K	CPU1	1	66.0H	100.00%	[idle{idle:	cpu1	]									
	11	root	155	ki31	0B	64K	CPU0	0	65.9H	100.00%	[idle{idle:	cpu0	]									
	11	root	155	ki31	0B	64K	RUN	2	66.0H	99.85%	[idle{idle:	cpu2	]									
58820	root	21	0	58M	41M	nanslp	3	12:24:00 AM	0.00%	php_wg:	WireGuard	service	(php_wg)									
30561	root	20	0	29M	10M	kqread	0	12:11:00 AM	0.00%	nginx:	worker	process	(nginx)									
30727	root	20	0	29M	9860K	kqread	1	12:10:00 AM	0.00%	nginx:	worker	process	(nginx)									
30328	root	31	0	28M	7932K	pause	0	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	nginx:	master	process	/usr/local/sbin/nginx	-c	/var/etc/nginx-webConfigurator.conf	(nginx)						
70931	dhcpd	20	0	23M	12M	select	2	12:03:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd	-user	dhcpd	-group	_dhcp	-chroot	/var/dhcpd	-cf	/etc/dhcpd.conf	-pf	/var/run/dhcpd.pid	igb1	
62448	unbound	20	0	225M	190M	kqread	3	12:31:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/unbound	-c	/var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound										
62448	unbound	20	0	225M	190M	kqread	2	12:24:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/unbound	-c	/var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound										
62448	unbound	20	0	225M	190M	kqread	2	12:16:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/unbound	-c	/var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound										
62448	unbound	20	0	225M	190M	kqread	3	12:11:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/unbound	-c	/var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound										
73106	dhcpd	20	0	20M	9100K	select	3	12:03:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd	-6	-user	dhcpd	-group	_dhcp	-chroot	/var/dhcpd	-cf	/etc/dhcpdv6.conf	-pf	/var/run/dhcpdv6.pid	igb1
29567	root	20	0	19M	7100K	select	1	12:13:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/ntpd	-g	-c	/var/etc/ntpd.conf	-p	/var/run/ntpd.pid{ntpd							
16918	root	20	0	19M	8136K	select	0	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/sbin/sshd												
18580	root	20	0	17M	7852K	kqread	3	04:02:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd_pfb	-f	/var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl_lighty.conf										
11663	root	23	0	13M	3808K	CPU2	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/bin/top	-baHS	999										
21177	root	22	0	133M	62M	piperd	0	01:44:00 AM	0.20%	php-fpm:	pool	nginx	(php-fpm){php-fpm									
12639	root	52	20	12M	3116K	wait	0	12:16:00 AM	0.00%	/bin/sh	/var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh											
27230	root	20	0	12M	3008K	bpf	2	12:03:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/filterlog	-i	pflog0	-p	/var/run/filterlog.pid								
57455	root	48	0	12M	2996K	wait	1	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	-sh	(sh)											
57499	root	52	0	12M	3024K	wait	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	-sh	(sh)											
66867	root	20	0	11M	2208K	select	0	12:30:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/sbin/powerd	-b	hadp	-a	hadp	-n	hadp						
57569	root	20	0	11M	2396K	select	2	12:11:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/radvd	-p	/var/run/radvd.pid	-C	/var/etc/radvd.conf	-m	syslog						
28710	root	23	0	11M	2528K	nanslp	1	12:03:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/sbin/cron	-s											
22792	_dhcp	20	0	11M	2652K	select	3	12:02:00 AM	0.00%	dhclient:	igb0	(dhclient)										
39698	root	20	0	11M	2444K	select	1	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/dhcp6c	-d	-c	/var/etc/dhcp6c_wan.conf	-p	/var/run/dhcp6c_igb0.pid	igb0						
19612	root	4	0	11M	2540K	select	1	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	dhclient:	igb0	[priv]	(dhclient)									
55338	root	52	0	11M	2728K	wait	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	login	[pam]	(login)										
56975	root	52	0	11M	2728K	wait	3	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	login	[pam]	(login)										
89641	root	52	0	11M	2900K	ttyin	1	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/bin/sh	/etc/rc.initial											
59186	root	52	0	11M	2900K	ttyin	0	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/bin/sh	/etc/rc.initial											
55697	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	0	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv2										
55512	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	3	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv1										
56214	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv4										
56559	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	0	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv6										
55951	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	3	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv3										
56267	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv5										
56879	root	52	0	11M	2236K	ttyin	1	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/libexec/getty	Pc	ttyv7										
73385	root	29	0	10M	2072K	kqread	2	12:00:00 AM	0.00%	/usr/local/sbin/dhcpleases6	-c	/usr/local/bin/php-cgi	-f	/usr/local/sbin/prefixes.php	-l	/var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd6.leases						
	29	root	16	-	0B	16K	syncer	1	12:03:00 AM	0.00%	[syncer]

          But, beats me how to read that.

          Again, nothing looks bad here. It just seems like a higher number than I remember. I'll keep an eye out to see if the memory utilization keeps creeping up and reaches something unreasonable.

          I'm just a home user with pfSense 23.09-RELEASE (amd64) on a Protecli VP2410

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          • areckethennuA Offline
            areckethennu @areckethennu
            last edited by

            @areckethennu Well, the last sentence should read ... NOTHING looks bad.... But, when I try to edit it, I get a popup that some service (Akimet?) thinks it's spam.

            I'm just a home user with pfSense 23.09-RELEASE (amd64) on a Protecli VP2410

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            • stephenw10S Offline
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Fixed it. 😉

              Yeah, nothing looks unusually high there. Unbound always uses quite a bit.

              Steve

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                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate @areckethennu
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                @areckethennu said in Memory Usage High in 22.01?:

                I also switched to ZFS.

                That alone will cause the system to use more RAM than it would with UFS.

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