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Are you using file system defaults (ZFS, compression)? The compression works very well on log files. (To check, "df -hT" and if ZFS, "zpool get feature@lz4_compress,feature@zstd_compress".)

I'm not using ZFS on this system. Here is the output from the command.

root@OPNsense:/home/afif # df -hT
Filesystem  Type      Size    Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0p2  ufs        29G    6.4G    20G    24%    /
devfs      devfs      1.0K      0B    1.0K    0%    /dev
/dev/da0p1  msdosfs    256M    1.3M    255M    0%    /boot/efi
root@OPNsense:/home/afif #

YES! Absolutely!

Thanks Nero, I already disabled it.

However, if its eating up disk space and not RAM, perhaps its worth to have a look what fills the disk. The first suspect I would look at is the /var/log directory for the log files. Often enough a sick process throws a lot of log entries which fills disk space very fast

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opnsense # du /var/log

might give some insights. Moreover, if its filling up a particular log file, this file might then give hints which process to look at

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I attached the picture after running that command. Currently, its already 5.8GB used of disk space at the time I posted.

[Running Services:]

This has been happening since last year

Did you start using

Running Services:

• hostwatch

At the same moment perhaps ?

There have been a lot of strange issues with it since it was introduced !!

Tbh, I don't know about it. I thought that if every service running, it should be fine. Since you mentioned hostwatch service have a lot of strange issue, should I disable it?

Also, a bit update from my end. My RAM usage looks stable (within 25-35%), but it starts eating disk space little by little. Previously, it was 3.6GB and now it's already 4.6GB from the total of 32GB (12+ hours since I disabled the Temp RAM and SWAP settings). Should I be concerned about this?

[VM Specs]

I already unchecked all the settings under disk/memory and restarted the router. FYI, this OPNsense is running inside the VM for 2+ years, so this issue is happening out of nowhere, and I can't identify which processes causing it to crash. I will let it run for 1-2 days and see if the router crash or not. I will also provide the info you are asking below.

VM Specs
CPUs: 4 cores
RAM: 4GB
Storage: 32GB

Running Services:

• caddy
• configd
• cron
• ddclient
• dnsmasq
• hostwatch
• login
• ntpd
• openssh
• pf
• qemu-ga
• routing
• sysctl
• syslog-ng
• webgui
• wireguard

Plugins:

• os-caddy
• os-ddclient
• os-q-feeds-connector
• os-qemu-guest-agent

Hi,
I have a strange issue where memory fill up very quickly and then swap get running out of space error causing the system/router crashed. This has been happening since last year and I have to reboot every 2 days before my whole network down. I tried to reduce the RAM from 16G to 4G (I thought it was required more RAM but the issue still happening but it delays the system crashed up to 1 weeks) and add 2G to swap (enabled in settings). I also reduce the plugins and the issue is still there. I also tried to deploy from scratch and import the config but the issue still persist. I attached my system log and I don't have any clue what was causing this, So I need your advice/help on this. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Afif