Asus AC3200 w/ Merlin 384.13 High CPU / Memory leak?

[cmkelley]

I'm really shocked - or maybe not - that there is no action with this what so ever. It's almost like the developer of the Merlin firmware is ignoring this is a problem, or he is too scared to fork his firmware off of the official Asus firmware in fear that it may actually fix stuff Asus can't. Would have thought with a custom firmware that meant that the developer would actually put forth effort into making sure it's better than the OEM stuff, but maybe not? Does the developer of the Merlin firmware even watch this forum? Can anyone reach out to him? Can he contact me so we can troubleshoot this issue in the firmware together - I know a lot about Linux I can provide some insights. I'm going to pull it off github now @ https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng - to see if I can find what's going on myself maybe.

Wow.

I'm really shocked - or maybe not - that someone would have the utter audacity to complain so vociferously about something they're getting for free, and then insult the developer on top of it! If you had bothered to look around at all, you'd know that the developer is ONE person, doing this in his spare time, for no more than whatever few dollars people throw at him through his paypal link. He supports a large number of ASUS routers, which are not all the same platform, each with it's own peculiarities. He is VERY much active in these threads and is very responsive when you can provide a definitive, reproducible issue starting from a known clean state. It's clear you just came in here and started spouting off without even doing one iota of homework.

Funny how pretty much every time someone declares a bug in the firmware that isn't already well-known, if and when they finally get convinced to reset to factory default and start from fresh, the problem goes away. AFAIK, all of the known bugs are in the closed-source binary blobs provided by ASUS that Merlin has zero control over, c.f. the dcd crash in AC86 routers. By the way, that's a pretty good chunk of the router firmware, such as, but by no means limited to, all the TrendMicro stuff and the wireless that are completely closed-source. But like I said, you'd know that had you bothered to do a minimal amount of investigating.

Don't you think that if there was repeatable problem with Merlin's firmware on the AC3200 more than just you would have encountered it by now? My AC3200 currently has 72 days of uptime with 172 MB free (i.e. 30% memory "used"), and CPUs running from 0 to 5%, no signs of sluggishness nor any of the issues you've declared to be bugs in Merlin's firmware. So there's no magic 32 day bug bringing your router down. And as far as I can tell, you've blamed it on Merlin's firmware without even seeing if it's reproducible in the stock firmware.

If you're all that and a bag of chips with Linux, by all means, fork the firmware and show everyone what a great coder you are. All of Merlin's code is GPL, so you're free to do so. Good luck with that.

 

[Makaveli]

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Totally agreed with you cmkelley.

if i was a mod that post is worthy of a couple days vacation from the forum.

Build you own folk and less us know how that is going.

Arrogant....

 

[Jack Yaz]

Totally agreed with you cmkelley.

if i was a mod that post is worthy of a couple days vacation from the forum.

Build you own folk and less us know how that is going.

Arrogant....

Sadly I see the exact same entitlement in my day job, people (who haven't paid the company and are using the free software, I might add) are equally "shocked" that our development team don't "just fix the bug". It's on a list of things to fix, along with necessary product development, and development resource is finite.

It seems this is the way the world is going, sadly.

 

[AndreiV]

I'm really shocked - or maybe not - that there is no action with this what so ever. It's almost like the developer of the Merlin firmware is ignoring this is a problem, or he is too scared to fork his firmware off of the official Asus firmware in fear that it may actually fix stuff Asus can't. Would have thought with a custom firmware that meant that the developer would actually put forth effort into making sure it's better than the OEM stuff, but maybe not? Does the developer of the Merlin firmware even watch this forum? Can anyone reach out to him? Can he contact me so we can troubleshoot this issue in the firmware together - I know a lot about Linux I can provide some insights. I'm going to pull it off github now @ https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng - to see if I can find what's going on myself maybe.

Anyway, happening again. I can't even get into the router stats page it's like just sitting and spinning...

I think you should pull your horns in, be very quiet and READ the forums before posting "content" like this.
You really are showing yourself up right now to be rather more than a numpty at best.
"The developer" gives more to this community than anyone else, he is always here, working and helping.
Merlin has gone out of his way to keep the AC3200 router going for us despite the almost total lack of anything being updated by ASUS.
Frankly with the attitude displayed by a few here I am surprised he doesn't just walk away from the project.
And so as you know, none of the 20+ AC3200's I get to see have any problem like you describe and they are in commercial use.
I would say what I really think of you but Mr.Higgins would have a fit.

And this garbage is unforgivable :

It's almost like the developer of the Merlin firmware is ignoring this is a problem, or he is too scared to fork his firmware off of the official Asus firmware in fear that it may actually fix stuff Asus can't.

 

[AndreiV]

Sadly I see the exact same entitlement in my day job, people (who haven't paid the company and are using the free software, I might add) are equally "shocked" that our development team don't "just fix the bug". It's on a list of things to fix, along with necessary product development, and development resource is finite.

It seems this is the way the world is going, sadly.

Sounds familiar sadly. I used to run support on a forum provider , it was a regular thing to get people like this asking for support with " My f%^$£")*& ! forums broken , get it f*&^%$£$ fixed."

They always went to the bottom of the ticket queue.