Ever since upgrading to pfsense 2.1 I have been let down by it. It looks like there are multiple issues and I am trying to separate them. One is system suicide by memory gobbling - but it's been a little tricky to find out why exactly.
It's a system with 512MB RAM, 768M swap. Mobo Ethernet, Intel system, some old P-III job. inphy0: <i82562EM 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus1 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow Realtek NIC (unused) rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Sun 4-port Ethernet NIC hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0x46000000-0x46007fff irq 21 at device 0.1 on pci3 miibus2: <MII bus> on hme0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus2 ukphy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto hme0: [ITHREAD] [and 3 more of these] Because of physical location a Brother HL5350DN printer is plugged into one of the hmeN ports directly. (Using a crossover cable makes no difference.) What happens next is the printer's hme interface goes up and down every few seconds. There are continuous hotplug events too. A gazillion php processes are spawned. Swap space is used. The system can't respond fast enough any more and other interfaces go down/up as well. Swap space runs out. Php etc get killed. A killall php on the pfsense system gives temporary reprieve. Essentially, if someone turns the printer on pfsense dies. Everything was running fine on the same hardware with 2.0 and I don't think swap space was ever used. I have squid and squidguard running on it too, but turning those off only changes how fast pfsense dies. The ntop package was installed and running as well, but top -osize told me it was using 200M RAM on start so it got uninstalled. Perhaps freebsd changed, and the php code can't handle it and goes into run-away memory consumption. How can I get this pfsense box back into the same reliable and dependable system it used to be before 2.1? Any suggestions appreciated. Happy to provide more info too - but where do I start looking? Thanks muchly, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
