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    Squid and NTOP stop working after some hours

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      hchady
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      hello,

      I am using the update version 1.0.1 of pfsense, i have installed squid and ntop.

      both work well for some hours and then stop workind randomly without any modification in the system

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        hoba
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        How much RAM do you have?

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          hchady
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          256Mb

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            hoba
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            This might be not enough for running ntop and squid. A large swap partition might help but the system will become slow when starting to swap. Monitor your memory and swap usage. I guess it's just running out of memory and is killing the processes due to that.

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              hchady
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              what is the optimal hardware configuration ?

              I am already running a P4 2.6 GHz with 256MB DD-RAM
              swap is 256 or 512 Mb i have not changed the default value during initial installation

              actual information in system shows :

              CPU usage : 3 %
              Memory Usage : 63 % (I have noticed that when squid was not installed i have 38 %)
              Swap usage : 3 %
              Disk Usage : 1 %

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                hoba
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                Monitor the values at status>system and stresstest your system (like running bittorrents and multiple http downloads).

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