Installation

Hello. Need help. I have 700 Mb harddisk and m0n0wall 1.23 on it. But, in webGui, on system page there is graph Memory usage, which shows 96 percent memory used. Why. Isnt m0n0wall cca 8 Mb instalation? Thanks for answer. Tommer

in webGui, on system page there is graph Memory usage, which shows 96 percent memory used.

That's in reference to RAM, not disk space.

db

Thanks for answer Clarknova, It may be, cos I have only 64 MB RAM. But, one question, I had 1.22 version, and I tryed to use Firmware uload,( to changr to 1.23 ) and that send me an error, not sucessfient  memory. why? Tommer

 

I tryed to use Firmware uload,( to changr to 1.23 ) and that send me an error, not sucessfient  memory. why?

You have 64 MB of RAM and it is 96% used, therefore you have 64 * 4% = 2.56 MB of free RAM. Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think without at least 8 MB of free RAM, you have no hope of upgrading your firmware via the GUI, because the new firmware has to be loaded into RAM before it can be written to your boot media.

Try rebooting the monowall. This usually frees up RAM for me and may enable you to do a live firmware update. If not, you may have to pull the hard drive and use physdiskwrite or dd to re-image your boot drive with the new firmware. In any case, be sure to take a backup of your config file first.

db

Thanks Clarknova, It will be probably true, .... it sounds logicaly. ( When I ll upgrade RAMs I will check upgrading via webGui and I ll give report.  ) Thanks Tommer

That's exactly why you can't upgrade. And I'd be surprised if you didn't have processes start randomly dying off at 96% memory usage, if it hits 100% that's going to happen. m0n0wall has no swap so it has nowhere to go if you run out of RAM.

You sure you actually have 64 MB RAM? It sounds like you have 32 MB. It's pretty difficult to use more than 30-35 MB RAM or so, unless you have a lot of VPN's or hundreds of DHCP clients.