Bill thanks. This is insightful as I have 512MB of ram. No custom packages. Basic traffic shaping to set 128kb for Vonage. Thats it. I will change the drive and see.
Is there a way to switch off the log? ----- Original Message ---- From: Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 7:29:04 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2rc4 fresh install - Disable Paging On Jan 25, 2008 2:47 PM, Anil Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok. I will leave paging on. I just kind of think its silly that for one > user at home I still hear my hdd constantly make noise of read-write... But > then I am not technical enough to know what is causing that.. I'm reasonably confident this isn't swapping. There's very little of pfSense that can actually be swapped out to disk - less than 128M of ram. And if anything in userland is getting swapped out to disk it's likely not being used, or you have a serious shortage of ram for the kernel to operate. We recommend a minimum of 128M (and throw appropriate warnings for those with less), but can operate in 64M environments (if you know what you are doing) without swap (and without panics). Things that might make the disk write are: Excessive blocked packets - you'd have to be on an abormally busy network though 3rd party packages - ntop (this one can eat lots of ram too), squid, etc Other thoughts...maybe it's not disk? Or maybe your disk is actually going bad and just making lots of noise. During normal operation disk should actually be used very little. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
