Harddrive use….
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I notice with my firewall that the harddrive activity light flashes every second or so, I'm assuming it's to save ntop stats. I have two questions regarding this.
- Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?
- Can I get ntop to keep the stats in RAM for a while and dump them every hour or so if that's what is causing the drive activity.
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I notice with my firewall that the harddrive activity light flashes every second or so, I'm assuming it's to save ntop stats. I have two questions regarding this.
- Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?
- Can I get ntop to keep the stats in RAM for a while and dump them every hour or so if that's what is causing the drive activity.
As far as I know NTOP saves the settings in ram. How often is this blink occuring?
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once a second, all the time
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0.92
And I turned ntop off, and it's the same actually, I guess it has nothing to do with ntop. I don't know why I didn't turn it off before posting….damn assumptions. ::)
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0.92
And I turned ntop off, and it's the same actually, I guess it has nothing to do with ntop. I don't know why I didn't turn it off before posting….damn assumptions. ::)
Run top and see if you see anything bursting to the upper top of the list every second.
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php is the only one that stays on top with 0.3-0.4%
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I rebooted the firewall, things seem ok now. I stood there for like a minute, no activity. When I ran top, top was the top programming running…..
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php is the only one that stays on top with 0.3-0.4%
Do this from a shell (option 8 from ssh or console):
fetch -o ~/test.sh http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/find_php.sh
chmod a+rx ~/test.sh && ~/test.shLook for which process is taking up the most time. mini_httpd will show up all the time so somewhat discard that one.
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Actually, do that from a SSH session.
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php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd. And that was from SSH.
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php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd. And that was from SSH.
Hrm. Very strange.
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It the hdd activity light starts flashing often again, I'll retry those commands and post the results.
As a note, it didn't seem to matter if my connection was idle or active either.
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when in doubt reboot;). How long after you reboot does it do this?
Memory glitch??…it's a guess.
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I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.
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what's your amount of ram?
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I have 256Mb of ram.
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I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.I had a similar problem ages ago with a 0.8 series. Turned out that the firewall couldn't resolve the ntp server address because the dns servers were not right/reachable.
So my advice is just search for anything thats wrong.
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- Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?
Apparently you can tell the system to mount the CF card r/o and only mount it r/w while a config change happens.
To do that you put the single word wrap into /etc/platform
echo wrap > /etc/platform
But that made no difference for me even after a restart.
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it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago
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it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago
Marvellous thank you. How do I mount / rw for a bit if I want to change stuff?
mount / -o remount,rw
doesn't do it. (yeah I'm a linux hoe)
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/etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
/etc/rc.conf_mount_ro
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Use Diagnostics -> Edit file from the webConfigurator, it does this automatically when you save the file.