Memory Usage: what do you think?

Hi noviceiii,

how much RAM do you have in the UTM?

Hi Jason

Thanks for asking.
There is currently 16 GB assigned (it is running on an ESXi).
This is plenty, isn't it (for home use)?

... maybe I'll assign 32 GB since there ist plenty in the ESXi too..

Greetings
n3

I have 8Gb on My unit at home, but this is not on a hyper-visor.

it also depends on the following;

1. How many rules.

2. Country blocking enabled.

3. web-filter policies.

4. IPS configuration (having all of them enabled can consume a lot of memory).

maybe reduce the attack patterns down to what you actually have.

5. How many modules you have running (and are using).

noviceiii, 16GB should be more than enough.  The next time you see this, run top to see what's eating your RAM and come back and tell us.

Cheers - Bob

Dear all

I wasn't able to reproduce the case since it raised my attention.
After a reboot, memory was always freed up from time to time. I still see days with memory high (and low network load) but as long as it decreases again (see below graph)... well

Meanwhile, I have changed several things

• upgraded to 9.508-10
• Introduced a IoT network where all the phone home devices are located (and previously often ran into IPS/FW)
• corrected my wrong understanding (and therefore all related settings) of External (Network) vs. Internet IP4

However, I'll keep an eye on it once in a while and when catching it on high memory, verify the task with Shell -> TOP. And sure, would report back findings.

Greetings

N3

Dear all

I wasn't able to reproduce the case since it raised my attention.
After a reboot, memory was always freed up from time to time. I still see days with memory high (and low network load) but as long as it decreases again (see below graph)... well

Meanwhile, I have changed several things

• upgraded to 9.508-10
• Introduced a IoT network where all the phone home devices are located (and previously often ran into IPS/FW)
• corrected my wrong understanding (and therefore all related settings) of External (Network) vs. Internet IP4

However, I'll keep an eye on it once in a while and when catching it on high memory, verify the task with Shell -> TOP. And sure, would report back findings.

Greetings

N3

Dear all

I kept monitoring the issue. I currently have constantly 75% again for about 3 weeks.
The shell didn't show anything unusual (at least for me ;-) ).

I am not much bothered since the UTM runs smoothly.

However, just curious why it holds that 75% line constantly after maybe two weeks of uptime.
Maybe we can't see the reduction to a lower value because the graph resolution is to rough?

Regards,
n3

MEM (16055 MB Total, 15789 MB Used). So far in line with the report.

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 16055 15789 266 262 245 2847
Low: 16055 15789 266
High: 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 12696 3359
Swap: 5119 141 4978

TOP

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23638 httpprox 20 0 951m 600m 10m S 1 3.7 65:27.78 httpproxy
6011 root 20 0 585m 529m 5360 S 0 3.3 22:21.12 cssd
4779 postgres 20 0 1604m 203m 203m S 0 1.3 4:45.24 postgres
5556 root 20 0 193m 161m 2216 S 0 1.0 14:55.94 named
4840 root 20 0 151m 125m 3652 S 0 0.8 14:21.46 mdw.plx
23610 httpprox 20 0 133m 104m 45m S 0 0.7 13:27.92 urid
8098 wwwrun 20 0 95672 89m 10m S 0 0.6 0:02.10 webadmin.plx
30707 snort 15 -5 102m 85m 1084 S 0 0.5 11:27.66 snort
30711 snort 15 -5 106m 81m 1144 S 0 0.5 21:45.88 snort
30702 snort 15 -5 104m 80m 1168 S 0 0.5 9:39.76 snort
31352 afcd 19 -1 101m 52m 6992 S 0 0.3 0:25.77 afcd
4777 postgres 20 0 1603m 47m 47m S 0 0.3 0:38.31 postgres
9748 root 20 0 77068 40m 3592 S 0 0.3 0:01.14 confd.plx
31249 postgres 20 0 1608m 35m 33m S 0 0.2 0:22.41 postgres
28217 wwwrun 20 0 55016 31m 0 S 0 0.2 0:00.47 index.plx
5954 root 20 0 71236 31m 8428 S 0 0.2 4:00.72 ctasd.bin
4337 root 20 0 57772 25m 3712 S 0 0.2 6:45.31 confd.plx 

PS

ps -eo pmem,pcpu,vsize,pid,cmd | sort -k 1 -nr | head -5
3.7 0.2 973992 23638 /var/chroot-http/usr/bin/httpproxy -f -c /var/chroot-http -u httpproxy
3.2 0.0 599476 6011 /usr/bin/cssd -d
1.2 0.0 1643096 4779 postgres: checkpointer process
1.0 0.0 198420 5556 /usr/sbin/named -4
0.7 0.0 155000 4840 /var/mdw/mdw.plx

... how to paste code in here properly?