therealjoeblow
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I have a RT-AC68U running Merlin 386.10.
When checking the NVRAM consumption with
I get the following output:
Now I recall some time in the past in an older firmware there was a tool to report issues through the router web interface itself, and I recall I tried that but it never worked for me. But it seems that in lines 183, 158, 147, and 95 it left behind the text strings of my attempted problem report.
I'm hoping to clear these out because my NVRAM is 100% full. I managed to temporarly free up some space by running:
...however that only works until the next reboot, when the NVRAM is 100% full again.
Can someone ELI5 it to me how I can clear these text strings and regain some of the NVRAM from them? Please take it easy on me, I'm no unix expert and it took me all week just to figure out how to get into the router using Putty to get that report!
Many thanks!
TRJB
When checking the NVRAM consumption with
Code:
nvram show | awk '{print length(), $0 | "sort -n -r"}' | cut -d"=" -f 1 | head -n 20I get the following output:
Code:
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U 386.10_0 Fri Mar 10 21:21:50 UTC 2023
size: 52294 bytes (13242 left)
1584 custom_clientlist
931 nc_setting_conf
864 client_info_tmp
628 dhcp_staticlist
573 rc_support
264 fb_comment
183 It was not like this when I got it about 2 years ago, and worked fine without ever pegging the processor to 100% until a few months ago with one of the more recent firmware upgrades.
164 subnet_rulelist
158 I have to reboot the router at that time and it will go through the normal for a few days cycle until it pegs processor 1 at 100% again and I have to repeat.
155 oauth_google_access_token
147 At that point the router becomes more and more sluggish and connections to the internet become unreliable, and eventually WiFi will stop working.
131 wl1_chansps
129 wps_env_buf
128 fb_browserInfo
120 qos_rulelist
112 vlan_rulelist
110 qos_bw_rulelist
95 Please fix this so the processor doesn't get pinned to 100% after a few days operation anymore.
92 1:pa5ga2
92 1:pa5ga1Now I recall some time in the past in an older firmware there was a tool to report issues through the router web interface itself, and I recall I tried that but it never worked for me. But it seems that in lines 183, 158, 147, and 95 it left behind the text strings of my attempted problem report.
I'm hoping to clear these out because my NVRAM is 100% full. I managed to temporarly free up some space by running:
Code:
for line in `nvram show | grep =$ `; do var=${line%*=}; nvram unset $var; done; nvram commit...however that only works until the next reboot, when the NVRAM is 100% full again.
Can someone ELI5 it to me how I can clear these text strings and regain some of the NVRAM from them? Please take it easy on me, I'm no unix expert and it took me all week just to figure out how to get into the router using Putty to get that report!
Many thanks!
TRJB
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