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    SWAP usage always zero

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    • TAC57T Offline
      TAC57
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      I have a pfSense box running the latest version with 3 GB of memory and the SWAP usage never moves of 0%.

      Memory usage is also hangs at 13%.  Maybe I should move 1GB of RAM to some other machine.  :-)

      Installed packages Lightsquid, mailreport, ntop, OpenVPN Client, RRD Summary, snort, squid3.

      Thnx,

      -TAC

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        Harvy66
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        Ideally you should never have swap usage on a firewall, but if you're hanging out at 10% usage, you probably could unallocate some VM memory. Don't forget, a state consumes about 1KiB of memory and each connection has 2 states. Just make sure you have enough memory to handle your maximum number of states. 1KiB per state, 2 states per connection.

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