swap usage shows 100%
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I would not conflate disk space consumption with swap file usage. Having large files on the disk does not necessarily relate to swap being used. Maybe if you were trying to load and view huge files, but the PHP GUI would probably crash first before it forced the OS into using swap.
Something with the number of active processes you have running is consuming the swap. You have a number of Snort processes showing in one of your screen captures. Do you actually have that many physical interfaces configured, or are you running Snort instances on multiple VLANs? If the latter, consider running a single Snort instance on the physical interface.
You also have a couple of other packages that are likely to use RAM aggressively. Taken all together, it appears you have more "stuff" running than you have enough physical RAM to accomodate- thus the need for swap usage.
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@posix The 70G/75G is total disk usage not pfBlocker usage. Though that’s at least 10x a typical pfSense installation.
Try “du -h —max-depth=2 /“ At a command line and see what’s using 70GB and apparently increasing since your earlier post. Then keep going into the largest subdirectories.
Edit: and yeah, disk usage is not equal to RAM usage.
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Just an update. I removed SNORT package and swap usage went down to %7
@bmeeks as you pointed I was using SNORT on a few vlan interfaces and subscribed to paid rules. Since SNORT is not going to be moving to newer releases in PFSENSE anytime soon and I have no technical justification to use it in my home network (LOL - I know, "But I wanted to learn"). Other real world problems take priority.
Will open another thread about file useage, thank you all for the pointer hopefully others will benefit from this thread.
