Yesterday evening, around 6pm, the memory use on my new ASG 8.1 box started to increase steadily, eventually consuming all of the swap space and most of the RAM. This happened at a time when there were no live users on the LAN, the only activity being my bit torrent traffic, which involves seeding torrents at a steady outbound rate limited to 25 KBytes/sec, and participating in two DHT clouds on the net. I have IDS exceptions defined for that traffic.
I rebooted the ASG router, which brought the memory utilization back down, but I am very puzzled as to what could have caused this.
Putting more RAM in the ASG box is certainly prudent, but doing so won't help against a runaway RAM leak condition. My ASG box has millions of packets streaming through it every day, due to my bit torrent traffic. I originally switched from using a Linksys 4-port router to ASG v4 back in January 2003, in order to run bit torrent traffic without having router problems. I skipped ASG v5, then upgraded to ASG v6, which I ran for many years, since it was extremely stable. I ended up skipping ASG v7 as well, and now that I am on v8.1, it appears that it is the intrusion detection system that is causing the machine to being overloaded, unless the proper traffic exceptions are in place. My new ASG 8.1 box, installed on Monday April 4th, has been running stable with a memory consumption of around 700 MB (48% of 1 GB RAM + 21% of 1 GB swap), except for the Friday night runaway RAM usage incident described in this thread.
Putting more RAM in the ASG box is certainly prudent, but doing so won't help against a runaway RAM leak condition. My ASG box has millions of packets streaming through it every day, due to my bit torrent traffic. I originally switched from using a Linksys 4-port router to ASG v4 back in January 2003, in order to run bit torrent traffic without having router problems. I skipped ASG v5, then upgraded to ASG v6, which I ran for many years, since it was extremely stable. I ended up skipping ASG v7 as well, and now that I am on v8.1, it appears that it is the intrusion detection system that is causing the machine to being overloaded, unless the proper traffic exceptions are in place. My new ASG 8.1 box, installed on Monday April 4th, has been running stable with a memory consumption of around 700 MB (48% of 1 GB RAM + 21% of 1 GB swap), except for the Friday night runaway RAM usage incident described in this thread.
