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Post by bittwiddler on Sept 5, 2017 20:47:30 GMT
I have been running Smallwall with great success on the long ago discontinued net4801-60 (256Mbyte SDRAM). I am wondering if anyone here has successfully used the net4801-50 or -48 which only has 128Mbyte SDRAM. Currently my memory status shows ~34% utilization so, in theory, it should be possible. I am speaking strictly of firewall application. No VPN, etc.
Thanks!
P.S. A litte more data
$ top -d1 last pid: 13557; load averages: 0.15, 0.11, 0.05 up 45+21:39:56 14:55:35 11 processes: 1 running, 9 sleeping, 1 zombie
Mem: 10M Active, 5008K Inact, 17M Wired, 48K Cache, 7760K Buf, 61M Free Swap:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 13554 root 1 76 10 10372K 8572K piperd 0:02 14.16% php 99 root 1 76 0 3684K 1488K ttyin 0:00 2.49% sh 13556 root 1 47 0 5148K 2176K piperd 0:00 0.10% mini_httpd 79 root 1 44 0 3300K 1800K nanslp 9:02 0.00% ipmon 83 root 1 44 0 3396K 1224K select 2:34 0.00% syslogd 90 root 1 44 0 4324K 3452K select 0:40 0.00% dhcpd 85 root 1 44 0 5148K 2128K select 0:28 0.00% mini_httpd 103 root 1 44 0 3404K 1404K nanslp 0:00 0.00% sntp 13557 root 1 109 10 3696K 1640K RUN 0:00 0.00% top 87 root 1 44 0 3684K 1480K wait 0:00 0.00% sh
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Post by Lee Sharp on Sept 5, 2017 22:40:01 GMT
In theory, it should run in as little as 64 meg of ram. That said, bad things start to happen when it is that low, and I would worry about stability.
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Post by bittwiddler on Sept 6, 2017 0:04:54 GMT
Thank you Lee!
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Post by bittwiddler on Apr 11, 2019 16:56:40 GMT
In case anyone searches and finds this thread - I have been able to successfully run Smallwall on the net4801-50 with only 128MB RAM. No issues so far although my source feed is only 10Gbit. If you are trying to run serious Gbit networks this solution would not work for you.
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