RT-N16 randomly reboots.

[Will01]

Hi guys

I recently bought the rt n 16, and I love it. I have merlin 376.48_2 running on it and transmission installed via entware.

Seemingly at random the router seems to reboot and all clients wireless or wired stop.

Also my transmission service seems to stop randomly as well. Normally during fast downloading or at the end of the download.

I've tried restoring to factory defaults and reinstalling my firmware but the issue remains.

I'm kind of lost about what to do. Any ideas?

 

[L&LD]

Sounds like you need to adjust the transmission settings. Try lower connections until it behaves.

 

[Will01]

Thanks I'll report back if the issue persists.

 

[TeHashX]

A swap file will help

 

[Will01]

I have a swap file. The ram usage seems fine. About 25% that's what was confusing me. I did so further digging yesterday and switched to rtorrent. It does seem better.

The big issue seemed to be CPU usage. Which was almost constantly 100% before the switch to rtorrent. I shut down media server, and ftp and am currently hovering around 25% CPU maxed. I will start adding services back in until I find the tipping point I guess.

Thanks again guys

 

[RMerlin]

The media server can easily crash if it encounters a corrupted media file. Try limiting the medias shared by the Media Server until you can isolate which one is causing the crash.

 

[Will01]

Is there any alternative to the built in media server that you guys prefer. The default seems OK but I know most people dont like DM hence why transmission and rtorrent etc seem to be used instead. Do you guys have anything else you use?

 

[RMerlin]

Is there any alternative to the built in media server that you guys prefer. The default seems OK but I know most people dont like DM hence why transmission and rtorrent etc seem to be used instead. Do you guys have anything else you use?

Are you talking about the media server, or the torrent client from Download Master? These are two totally different things.

 

[Will01]

No the DLNA media server that's comes with your firmware merlin. I've already replaced DM with rTorrent but was wondering if I should replace the standard media server also.

 

[TeHashX]

No the DLNA media server that's comes with your firmware merlin. I've already replaced DM with rTorrent but was wondering if I should replace the standard media server also.

Try this if you want https://www.asuswrt.eu/minidlna-through-debian-entware-mipsel/

 

[Will01]

Thanks tehash. I set it up about an hour ago. However I note it is still not showing any media?

I'm sure I setup the media folder correctly as I can see my media in the opt/debian/mnt folder.

PS my torrents have been stable all weekend. No crash's, thanks for your help on that guys.

 

[TeHashX]

Thanks tehash. I set it up about an hour ago. However I note it is still not showing any media?

I'm sure I setup the media folder correctly as I can see my media in the opt/debian/mnt folder.

PS my torrents have been stable all weekend. No crash's, thanks for your help on that guys.

/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start

 

[Will01]

/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start

Chroot'ed services seems to be already started, exiting...

 

[TeHashX]

What shows 192.168.1.1:8200 ?
rebuild database
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian stop
rm -r /mnt/sda1/debian/opt/minidlna
/opt/etc/init.d/S99debian start

 

[Will01]

That's done it. Thanks!

 

[TeHashX]

That's done it. Thanks!

Nice, please leave feedback directly on site.

 

[Will01]

Hey again guys,

Sorry to be a pain, the issue with torrents seems to have returned. I have my swap file active and still seem to run out of memory when I get a slightly faster torrent downloading (anything over 1MB/s seems to be the trigger).

I seen these commands in a previous thread on memory issues, so I will post the outputs in case it helps:

admin@RT-N16-B271:/tmp/home/root# ps w
  PID USER       VSZ STAT COMMAND
    1 admin     4368 S    /sbin/init noinitrd
    2 admin        0 SW<  [kthreadd]
    3 admin        0 SWN  [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 admin        0 SW<  [events/0]
    5 admin        0 SW<  [khelper]
   20 admin        0 SW<  [kblockd/0]
   46 admin        0 SW   [pdflush]
   47 admin        0 SW   [pdflush]
   48 admin        0 DW<  [kswapd0]
   49 admin        0 SW<  [aio/0]
   93 admin        0 SW<  [mtdblockd]
  110 admin        0 SW<  [kmmcd]
  114 admin      644 S    hotplug2 --persistent --no-coldplug
  145 admin     4356 S    console
  146 admin     1436 S    /bin/sh
  152 admin        0 SWN  [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
  156 admin     1428 S    /sbin/klogd
  158 admin        0 SW<  [khubd]
  212 admin        0 SW<  [scsi_eh_0]
  213 admin        0 DW<  [usb-storage]
  297 admin     4364 S    ntp
  299 admin     4364 S    /sbin/wanduck
  302 admin     1108 S    dropbear -p 22 -j -k
  306 admin     1112 S    /bin/eapd
  309 admin     4364 S    wpsaide
  313 admin     3896 S    httpd
  316 admin     1512 S    nas
  317 admin     1440 S    crond
  318 admin     1084 S    /usr/sbin/infosvr br0
  319 admin     1172 S    networkmap --bootwait
  324 admin     4364 S    watchdog
  325 admin     4364 S    ots
  328 admin     1296 S    rstats
  338 admin     1160 S    lld2d br0
  348 admin     4364 S    usbled
  355 nobody    1048 S    dnsmasq --log-async
  439 admin        0 SW<  [kjournald]
  461 admin     2108 S    u2ec
  462 admin     2108 S    u2ec
  463 admin     2108 S    u2ec
  466 admin     1184 S    lpd
  472 admin      884 S    miniupnpd -f /etc/upnp/config
  479 admin     4364 S    disk_monitor
  557 admin     1428 S    /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /mnt/sda5/logs/syslog.log -S -l 7 -s 0
  586 admin     1784 S    {screen} SCREEN -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -D -n -o import=/opt/etc/rtorrent/rtorrent.conf
  589 admin     151m D    rtorrent -D -n -o import=/opt/etc/rtorrent/rtorrent.conf
  591 admin     4172 S    lighttpd -f /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
  592 admin     8576 S    /opt/bin/php-fcgi
  593 admin     8596 S    /opt/bin/php-fcgi
  594 admin     8596 S    /opt/bin/php-fcgi
  640 admin     1176 S    dropbear -p 22 -j -k
  641 admin     1436 S    -sh
  690 admin     1176 S    dropbear -p 22 -j -k
  691 admin     1440 S    -sh
  695 admin     1432 R    ps w
admin@RT-N16-B271:/tmp/home/root# free -m
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        126452       124236         2216            0         1248
-/+ buffers:             122988         3464
Swap:       524280         5524       518756
admin@RT-N16-B271:/tmp/home/root# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                25.3M     25.3M         0 100% /
tmpfs                    61.7M      3.8M     57.9M   6% /tmp
devfs                    61.7M         0     61.7M   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4            5.0M    400.0K      4.6M   8% /jffs
/dev/sda5                 1.8T    103.1G      1.6T   6% /tmp/mnt/sda5
devfs                    61.7M         0     61.7M   0% /tmp/mnt/sda5/debian/dev
/dev/sda5                 1.8T    103.1G      1.6T   6% /tmp/mnt/sda5/debian/mnt