>>> a_subscribti...@fiberby.dk wrote: >>>> That immediately reduced the memory use from 50% -22% >>>> But as you state, it doesn't solve the underlying problem. >> >> Thanks, I just committed a change to prevent this from being a problem. > > I guess that would be > http://redmine.pfsense.org/repositories/diff/pfsense/usr/local/www/diag_packet_capture.php?rev=4e7d16657607583500f9c05aa5b8b6fdfa859e1c > > Which solves Olivers problem filling up the /tmp/ ramdisk. > > Anders: did this also solve your problem ? were you running packet > captures ? Can you post a longer ps aux | grep tcpdump to confirm > whether this is the pflog or another tcpdump process ? > > No, I never use the packet-capture feature, since I have a sniffer on a > mirror-port. > It seems that one of my routers (the one with a fresh install of 1.2.2) is > behaving different now. > Just after I ran the "Kill 554", it immediately reduced the memory use from > 50% -22%. This morning it was down to 15%. > On the other router, the "Kill 554" apparently didn't have any effect, since > the memory usage is still the same. > > Here's the full ps aux for the router that is still leaking memory:
The command names are still truncated. Do you have a larger terminal to output on ? The "kill 554" command removed the tcpdump process on your first machine (where the process ID was 554), on the other machine the PID is 517 and the process is consuming 33% of memory: > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 517 0.0 33.0 343616 341308 d0- S 4Sep09 496:51.12 > /usr/sbin/tcpdum I still suspect this being the pflog-tcpdump hogging memory, not the packet capture filling the ramdisk. Scott ? I just keep revealing my incompetence;) I ran "kill 517", and that did it. I very much appreciate your help, but as you probably noticed by now, I haven't got the knowledge to understand what's beneath the hood... If there is any information that you need me to provide to you, or something that I should do/read to gain knowledge, don't hesitate to ask/suggest... Thanks Anders --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
