smart TV causes memory usage to double within Opnsense when turned on

[DEC740airp414user]

I have a 4-5 year old fully "updated". Samsung Tizen based TV.    I have also factory reset this tv and started over with the configuration.
that's means removing any additional or any apps I don't want.   It has Apple TV, amazon, and YouTube app, Samsung TV.

its on its own separate Vlan/ dedicated port on my DEC 740 Appliance.

what are your thought that would cause memory to increase by X2 by just turning on a "smart" device?    it pretty much stays that high even up to 30 minutes after the tv is turned off?

[OPNenthu]

Lots of firewall states?  Do you see a big increase in Reporting->Health->System (states) for that time period?

[DEC740airp414user]

will check the next time I turn on the tv.

I am probably going to get a different product to stream.   my gut feeling is tizen is no longer supported / EOL

was hoping for someone with more knowledge to find where its coming from thanks opnenthu

[OPNenthu]

was hoping for someone with more knowledge...

Hey no problem. :)  Take care.

[dogshome]

My Hisense telly likes to call its friends around the world. No updates, adfest on TV channels. Are you running Unbound and is it simply caching all the websites your telly also likes to invite?

[Seimus]

what are your thought that would cause memory to increase by X2 by just turning on a "smart" device?    it pretty much stays that high even up to 30 minutes after the tv is turned off?

Considering, the TV only reaches to internet. The only thing how it can impact memory is as mentioned above by opening a lot of sessions.
Each session takes a slice of memory. If you run ZA or IPS the memory impact can be multiplied.

each state table entry requires about 1 kB (kilobytes) of RAM

Considering the above, the TV would have to open a lot of sessions. But SmartTVs are basically just IoT devices with the perk they like to flood and spam which is as well multiplied by various applications you run on the TV.

Regards,
S.

[DEC740airp414user]

Now I'm really puzzled

I disconnected my tizen tv from the internet...   Bought a brand new Apple TV 4K and hardwired it to the same port in my dec appliance

It's doing the same thing

Doing the health - system -  states pfstates goes from 0  to 450.


In utilizing unbound with
Adguard
Oisd large
Hagazi pro
And the pro version of Qfeeds

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[Patrick M. Hausen]

0 to 450 is a significant increase but 450 is "nothing". Why would you worry about 450 sessions? Thousands of them is what I would consider normal even in a home network with one or two dozens of devices.