Bill Waggoner
Occasional Visitor
I've started to investigate a problem that requires me to forceably reboot the router every so often, once a month or so. I suspected that it was running out of memory because that's what the ASUS app was showing on my iPad. A bit before the last time I rebooted the app showed 78% memory utilization but I had noticed much lower (50%) previously. I hadn't been paying much attention so I decided to watch more closely.
To do this I created a script which ssh's into the router and does a cat /proc/meminfo and puts the results into a CSV file. I loaded that into Excel and, sure enough, the memfree is slowly going down.
What is interesting is what is going up. Both Slab and SUnreclaim are both climbing. Sounds like a memory leak but I haven't figured out what is leaking yet.
Anyone have any ideas? Have you seen this too?
I haven't rebooted since the first few days of monitoring but I will maybe next week to see what happens.
To do this I created a script which ssh's into the router and does a cat /proc/meminfo and puts the results into a CSV file. I loaded that into Excel and, sure enough, the memfree is slowly going down.
What is interesting is what is going up. Both Slab and SUnreclaim are both climbing. Sounds like a memory leak but I haven't figured out what is leaking yet.
Anyone have any ideas? Have you seen this too?
I haven't rebooted since the first few days of monitoring but I will maybe next week to see what happens.
