Hello, > On 5 Jun 2025, at 12:55, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 05/06/2025 12:42, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Hello Adolf, >> If the Prime appliance is not suitable for testing any more, I am sure we >> can find you something else. > > It can still be used for testing and even for some bug development. It is > just that with the IPS enabled, that uses 1.4GB on its own so the memory > usage is around 88% to 94%.
I have noticed that Suricata has become very memory hungry recently, too. I think it is since we upgraded to version 7, but I did not verify this. > So doing something like a change to the IPS rulesets that are enabled ends up > going into something like 20% swap usage and trying to access the Prime via > SSH has ended up at 35% swap usage just now when I tested it. > The impact of the swap usage is just that everything ends up going very slow. This appliance is already very slow and the disk-on-module is not super fast either. This is not fun to use. > Disabling the IPS resolves the swap usage because the memory level is then > down at 50% or less. > >> What would you need? > > I don't really know. I find it good to be able to do testing on both vm and > physical hardware and the definite benefit of the Prime is that it has a wifi > connection so I can test out the hostapd element of IPFire, which I can't on > the vm systems. > > I have thought on and off about replacing my "production" old mini appliance > with one of the new mini appliances and then I could use the old mini > appliance for testing etc although it doesn't have a wifi connection. We can fix that. I am sure I have a spare WiFi module somewhere around. Are you using WiFi in your production appliance? > Until I get to a point to getting the new mini appliance the Prime definitely > is of benefit to my testing. > > Maybe I use the vm systems for IPS e\valuations and disable it on the Prime. > That would probably help with the memory and performance. > That's a good idea. I will give that a test out and see how things go. Best, -Michael > Regards, > Adolf. > >> -Michael >>> On 5 Jun 2025, at 10:42, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 04/06/2025 20:25, Tim Zakharov wrote: >>>> Adolf, >>>> If you have access to a 4GB DDR3 SODIMM (even if you temporarily grab one >>>> from an old laptop or borrow from a colleague), you could try installing >>>> it. I wouldn't be surprised if the system booted up and either supported >>>> the full 4GB or limited it to 2.44GB, but worked nonetheless. It won't >>>> hurt anything to try. Worst case, the system does not power up until you >>>> replace the original SODIMM. >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestions Tim. Unfortunately didn't help. My oldest laptop >>> turns out to have DDR2 and the SODIMM's are 2GB anyway. >>> My newest laptop has DDR4, so not usable. >>> My netbook does have DDR3 but with only a 2GB SODIMM. >>> >>>> Tim >>>> On 6/4/2025 1:18 PM, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>>> Hello Adolf, >>>>> >>>>> Hmm, this might be difficult. I remember that this processor was a little >>>>> bit limited in how much RAM it supports. >>>>> >>>>> However, the Intel Ark says max. 2.44 GiB >>>>> (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/58916/intel-atom-processor-n2600-1m-cache-1-6-ghz/specifications.html). >>>>> >>>>> I am not sure how to put this in, but generally that seems to be not much >>>>> higher than two. >>> >>> I think you are right. >>> >>> I am only using it as a Testing evaluation system and as a system to do bug >>> development work on. >>> >>> So I think I will just have to accept that the memory might be used up a >>> lot and periodically it might go into swap use. I can live with that. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adolf. >>> >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> -Michael >>>>> >>>>>> On 3 Jun 2025, at 20:15, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Arne and everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> In the monthly conf call I forgot to ask this question. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have an old IPFire Prime system which has a 2GB sodimm memory card >>>>>> installed. The memory is very close to fully utilised so that >>>>>> periodically the swap space gets used for memory. >>>>>> >>>>>> I would like to buy some larger memory for it but I need to know if I >>>>>> can use 8GB cards with it or if it is limited to 4GB as the largest >>>>>> memory size that is usable (or worst case, that I have to stay with the >>>>>> 2GB card if that is the biggest supported). >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone know what the max ram memory that can be supported by the Prime >>>>>> systems is? >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Adolf. >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> > >
