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Archive => 22.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: Vexz on November 29, 2022, 01:06:58 PM

Title: OPNsense 22.7.8 high RAM usage
Post by: Vexz on November 29, 2022, 01:06:58 PM
I just checked my OPNsense's dashboard and saw that the RAM usage is much higher than usual. Usually about 25% to 30% of my total memory is being used, now it's at 42%. I've never seen such a high RAM usage on my OPNsense before.
So I checked the console and used the top command to find out which process is the culprit. This is the result.
(https://nextcloud.alnas.myds.me/s/TBBtdfAfiRHbPjp/download/2022-11-29_13-08-38.png)

A reboot didn't help to fix the problem. Does anybody have a clue why these processes use so much of my RAM?

Edit:
I'm now back at 29% which is normal. I saw it go up to 58%. Makes me wonder what went wrong.
Title: Re: OPNsense 22.7.8 high RAM usage
Post by: axsdenied on November 29, 2022, 05:49:13 PM
I saw similar behavior; I have an 8 GB box and it usually hovers around 2 to 3 GB.  It had been consistently maintaining 6 GB after the update.

I haven't been able to narrow down what the culprit was.
Title: Re: OPNsense 22.7.8 high RAM usage
Post by: RamSense on November 29, 2022, 08:51:42 PM
I noticed also much higher memory usage, as SWAP usage what was not there before. I have ordered extra memory just in case :-)

95 processes:  1 running, 94 sleeping
CPU:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.7% idle
Mem: 2267M Active, 4909M Inact, 5347M Laundry, 2198M Wired, 1320M Buf, 1075M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 335M Used, 7857M Free, 4% Inuse