perhaps that's the log files being written? I run my system with 256 megs of RAM with heavy bandwidth usage of my 16 mbit connection and I barely peak over 35% memory utilization (that's with THOUSANDS of states due to bittorrent)
-Sean From: Anil Garg Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2rc4 fresh install - Disable Paging 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.. Thanks for your advice. ----- Original Message ---- From: Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:09:37 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2rc4 fresh install - Disable Paging On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Anil Garg wrote: I have a machine with 1GB of Ram on which I wish to install pfsense 1.2rc4. Does anyone know how to disable paging after installation since we have much more memory than we need. Essentially, is there a way to run pfsense entirely from ram. Unless your system needs more than that RAM, you will never hit the swap partition. However, what you're asking is essentially to run your system without swap, means that when you *do* need more memory, you would rather the system panic than degrade performance. I'd recommend monitoring if you ever go to swap, and then react to it, rather than making the system panic for out of memory.
