On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Erik Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw one anomaly that I doubt has anything to do with this failure, > but I'm not certain, so I'll mention it. This install is on a soekris > net-5501, which only has 256 MB RAM. As such, when pfsense booted, php > was consistently getting killed due to memory contention. I needed to > restart the web configurator from the console. Now, my assumption is > that routing, NAT, firewall, etc. are kernel-level functions and > should not be affected by an out-of-memory condition. Is this correct?
Yes but if you run out of RAM while booting, much of the OS may be left unconfigured or partially configured. If you ran out of RAM while the system was already up and running, generally the things that would die wouldn't impact the ability of the system to filter and NAT. The most common way to exhaust 256 MB is several active OpenVPN instances, which take up much more RAM for a brief period when they initially start up than they do under normal operating conditions. Packages the other common way. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
