FreeBSD will buffer as much ram as you give it IIRC. What you really should monitor is top from a shell if you are this worried. I would not be worried at all until memory is in the 90+.
Scott On 12/28/06, Jack Mayhew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm seeing the same thing (ver 1.0.1 - though I originally installed Snort while running an earlier version)- removed Snort a few months ago (not sure what version I was running when I removed it - upgraded since), but it is still showing up in Top (state is bpf). Memory use was up to 78%, dropped to 32% after I killed the process using Command. However, a few minutes later, it was back (in Top) in the bpf state again, and memory usage was back up to 68%! Seems like an issue with the removal process? Doesn't ever seem to bring the system down, but I will probably do a reinstall as well (pretty painless with the CD and saved config)... Other than that, running like a top on an old HP Vectra 733MHz PIII box with a CF card, and an Intel dual NIC card in addition to the on board NIC (a 3Com). I forget how much memory it has, but dmesg claims around 190 Meg total. Been rock solid (been up now for 22 days, due to our power being out for several hours back then, but other than that, has never gone down unless I told it to! I had been using M0n0wall on a Soekris 4501, which had been working flawlessly, but switched to pfSense to check out the packages, and maybe Carp eventually. Thanks for a great piece of work! Regards, Jack Mayhew Mike Johnson- Southwestech Computers wrote: > Thanks. I am leaning towards that as well. Not the "fix" I was looking > for, but it is what has to be done... quick and dirty. Thanks Holger > > > > > Holger Bauer wrote: >> I recommend a reinstall. Backup your config.xml without package settings >> (it's an option at diagnostics>backup/restore. >> >> Holger >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Johnson- Southwestech Computers >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 5:49 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Memory issue
