I'm seeing the same thing (ver 1.0.1 - though I originally installed
Snort while running an earlier version)- removed Snort a few months ago
(not sure what version I was running when I removed it - upgraded
since), but it is still showing up in Top (state is bpf). Memory use
was up to 78%, dropped to 32% after I killed the process using Command.
However, a few minutes later, it was back (in Top) in the bpf state
again, and memory usage was back up to 68%! Seems like an issue with
the removal process? Doesn't ever seem to bring the system down, but I
will probably do a reinstall as well (pretty painless with the CD and
saved config)...
Other than that, running like a top on an old HP Vectra 733MHz PIII box
with a CF card, and an Intel dual NIC card in addition to the on board
NIC (a 3Com). I forget how much memory it has, but dmesg claims around
190 Meg total. Been rock solid (been up now for 22 days, due to our
power being out for several hours back then, but other than that, has
never gone down unless I told it to! I had been using M0n0wall on a
Soekris 4501, which had been working flawlessly, but switched to pfSense
to check out the packages, and maybe Carp eventually. Thanks for a great
piece of work!
Regards,
Jack Mayhew
Mike Johnson- Southwestech Computers wrote:
Thanks. I am leaning towards that as well. Not the "fix" I was looking
for, but it is what has to be done... quick and dirty. Thanks Holger
Holger Bauer wrote:
I recommend a reinstall. Backup your config.xml without package settings
(it's an option at diagnostics>backup/restore.
Holger
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Johnson- Southwestech Computers
[mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 5:49 PM
To: discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Memory issue
