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    High Memory Usage pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE

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      NeophyteHeaven
      last edited by

      Im using kinda high spec server
      Dell R300 with 4GB Memory, 160GB (raid1), but after few days used, when i see at system information overview, the memory usage is kinda high for 4GB memory..i taught pfsense can run on low end spec pc. issit because of my squid?

      HTTP/1.0 200 OK
      Server: Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11
      Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
      Content-Type: text/plain
      Expires: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
      X-Cache: MISS from gateway
      Via: 1.0 gateway:3128 (Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11)
      Connection: close

      Squid Object Cache: Version LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11
      Start Time:     Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:52:53 GMT
      Current Time:   Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
      Connection information for squid:
             Number of clients accessing cache:      65
             Number of HTTP requests received:       245577
             Number of ICP messages received:        0
             Number of ICP messages sent:    0
             Number of queued ICP replies:   0
             Request failure ratio:   0.00
             Average HTTP requests per minute since start:   84.8
             Average ICP messages per minute since start:    0.0
             Select loop called: 26193428 times, 6.632 ms avg
      Cache information for squid:
             Request Hit Ratios:     5min: 22.2%, 60min: 20.9%
             Byte Hit Ratios:        5min: 0.7%, 60min: 17.6%
             Request Memory Hit Ratios:      5min: 100.0%, 60min: 66.4%
             Request Disk Hit Ratios:        5min: 0.0%, 60min: 26.1%
             Storage Swap size:      3843976 KB
             Storage Mem size:       1046812 KB
             Mean Object Size:       18.86 KB
             Requests given to unlinkd:      0
      Median Service Times (seconds)  5 min    60 min:
             HTTP Requests (All):   0.17711  0.33943
             Cache Misses:          0.61549  0.46965
             Cache Hits:            0.00000  0.00091
             Near Hits:             0.00000  0.13498
             Not-Modified Replies:  0.00000  0.00000
             DNS Lookups:           0.00000  0.00000
             ICP Queries:           0.00000  0.00000
      Resource usage for squid:
             UP Time:        173704.610 seconds
             CPU Time:       1009.422 seconds
             CPU Usage:      0.58%
             CPU Usage, 5 minute avg:        0.10%
             CPU Usage, 60 minute avg:       0.43%
             Process Data Segment Size via sbrk(): 0 KB
             Maximum Resident Size: 2278184 KB
             Page faults with physical i/o: 11
      Memory accounted for:
             Total accounted:       1164615 KB
             memPoolAlloc calls: 51085955
             memPoolFree calls: 47914458
      File descriptor usage for squid:
             Maximum number of file descriptors:   11095
             Largest file desc currently in use:     21
             Number of file desc currently in use:   18
             Files queued for open:                   0
             Available number of file descriptors: 11077
             Reserved number of file descriptors:   100
             Store Disk files open:                   0
             IO loop method:                     kqueue
      Internal Data Structures:
             205790 StoreEntries
             110132 StoreEntries with MemObjects
             110125 Hot Object Cache Items
             203793 on-disk objects

      service that i installed
      1. Denyhosts
      2. Squid (lusca-cache)
      3. Squid Guard
      4. bandwidthd
      5. snort
      6. cron
      7. dnsmasq
      8. ntpd

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      running pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE on Dell R300 (raid1), Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11

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        Guest
        last edited by

        Squid, SquidGuard and Snort are all major resource pigs.

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          NeophyteHeaven
          last edited by

          so i just leave it ???
          i need to restart it every 3 days if like that

          running pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE on Dell R300 (raid1), Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11

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            Guest
            last edited by

            Either add more memory or stop using all those packages.

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              NeophyteHeaven
              last edited by

              im on 4Gb memory already..and it just used by <100 user..soon it will be more

              running pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE on Dell R300 (raid1), Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11

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                focalguy
                last edited by

                I'm not experienced with those packages but it seems I heard you can tweak the configurations on Squid and maybe other packages to use less memory but by default they will just keep eating up resources. Maybe a search for configurations of Squid would be helpful.

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