SOLVED [RT-AC3200] Worried about Router Reboots Please Help

[Mark112887]

Yes, just changing mode can trigger the leak. Leak is around 6MB per reconfig, so that can explain our 6MB RAM difference exactly.

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Well I just checked this morning and it is currently 82 MB jumping between 32 and 33%, that's after doing nothing but sitting all night with no activity. Is there any way that you know of to circumvent the memory leak?Last night it was at 30% with about 76

 

[Puppa]

Just reboot, with no setting changes afterwards

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[Puppa]

I am thinking that is exactly what you did last night (no wireless edits after reboot). I don't have Samba or external disk on, so I suspect that is where your additional memory use is coming from, as it's a pretty small difference. Unless the number keeps increasing, no worries.

BTW, new stock FW for 3200 is available, but we probably won't see GPL code for a few days to know what was fixed. Merlin can comment. If I were in your shoes, I'd be tempted to trade the 3200 inside the return window for an RT-AC88. Processor in that one is about 40% faster than the 3200, and the higher number on FW version (380 vs 378) usually means a new kernel, which will include bug fixes and performance improvements. The unknown part, however, is how many new bugs were introduced, since users with stability feedback are currently very few, probably limited on the entire internet to the simple handful of people posting here on SNB. I've had my finger hovering on the Click to buy on that one for a few days...but stability seems to be nearing perfect for 3200, which gives me some hesitation.

 

[Mark112887]

just did a reboot dropped to 23%. so as long as I don't change settings I should be fine? do you see ram increases from one day to the next?

 

[Mark112887]

I'm really liking the tri band features of the 3200. Yesterday when I did the reset on my router after a fresh flash I did have to change wireless settings to make sure I was on N only on the 2.4 GHz network and N/AC mixed on the 5 GHz networks. Not knowing about the memory leak you told me about I don't believe I reset the router after I did that so I'll just have to sit back and see what happens

 

[Mark112887]

The thing that really annoys me as I was experiencing the same problem on the AC66u that I came from, I know I've mentioned that about 100 times in this thread by now but I'm just worried about going to yet another router and having the same issues.

 

[Mark112887]

Now at 19% with 48mb. not going to touch a single setting just going to monitor from day to day to see if things
increase

 

[Puppa]

23% will creep up gradually to 29% and stick there forever, at least for my setup. Your fears are understandable. I've hit this same thing myself (buy new router only to hit the same or a variation of the stability problem I was trying to avoid).

 

[Mark112887]

23% will creep up gradually to 29% and stick there forever, at least for my setup. Your fears are understandable. I've hit this same thing myself (buy new router only to hit the same or a variation of the stability problem I was trying to avoid).

What is your setup if I may ask? mine is 2 wired devices 7 wireless and a usb 3 driveconnected via samba share that's it all other features are off except for manual DHCP and port forwarding

 

[Mark112887]

23% will creep up gradually to 29% and stick there forever, at least for my setup. Your fears are understandable. I've hit this same thing myself (buy new router only to hit the same or a variation of the stability problem I was trying to avoid).

Today I'm at 22% with 55MB still haven't touched a single setting since the reboot

 

[Mark112887]

Up to 56MB. Just so I can understand it should hit 29% and stop rising, right?

 

[Mark112887]

23% will creep up gradually to 29% and stick there forever, at least for my setup. Your fears are understandable. I've hit this same thing myself (buy new router only to hit the same or a variation of the stability problem I was trying to avoid).

Ram rose about 6-8MB from yesterday to today, no setting changes since yesterdays reboot

 

[L&LD]

I think you are being way too paranoid about the RAM usage on the router.

As long as it is not hitting 100%, what is the problem?

My RAM usage on an RT-N66U is 38% and has been 'up' for 71 days and 11 hours with zero issues.

At this time, I do not see this as an issue for you, at all.

 

[Mark112887]

I think you are being way too paranoid about the RAM usage on the router.

As long as it is not hitting 100%, what is the problem?

My RAM usage on an RT-N66U is 38% and has been 'up' for 71 days and 11 hours with zero issues.

At this time, I do not see this as an issue for you, at all.

should it clear itself at a certain point?

 

[L&LD]

should it clear itself at a certain point?

There is nothing to clear. RAM is used as needed. If a process needs extra RAM, it will be made available at that time.

But at 20% to 70% indicated usage, you are worrying far beyond the scope of reason.

 

[Puppa]

Depends on what is running, it might be normal for it not to clear itself. Disk drivers usually require RAM buffers for performance. Yes, I agree with @L&LD : if you're not hitting 100% (and you aren't even close) you have nothing to worry about.

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[Mark112887]

Depends on what is running, it might be normal for it not to clear itself. Disk drivers usually require RAM buffers for performance. Yes, I agree with @L&LD : if you're not hitting 100% (and you aren't even close) you have nothing to worry about.

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I'll let it go for now, if I hit 50% Ill worry

 

[Mark112887]

Depends on what is running, it might be normal for it not to clear itself. Disk drivers usually require RAM buffers for performance. Yes, I agree with @L&LD : if you're not hitting 100% (and you aren't even close) you have nothing to worry about.

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I apologize if I seem paranoid, I will admit that I am. I just don't want to see the same thing happen with the 3200 that happened with my previous router. So far since I rebooted the router about a day and a half ago I have seen the RAM steadily rise, and I haven't changed any settings since the reboot just like you told me because of the memory leak. As I sit here right now I'm at 27% with about 68 or 69 MB used. The only things I have enabled on the router are WPA2 protection, port forwarding and manual DHCP to give my devices a static IP address. My samba share is also enabled and that's it.

I know that while streaming it's normal for the RAM usage to get very high, but the hard drive is not used all the time, in fact hardly at all. So I don't think the issue is necessarily a RAM buffer the increases that I've been seeing are about 5 MB per day. For example when I first rebooted the router the lowest my memory would rest at was between 19 and 20%, by the end of the first day it was resting at 23%, this morning that number seems to be 27%. I know that I'm nowhere near 100% but the fact that I'm seeing this steady rise is what has me concerned because it's the same thing that happened on my previous device

 

[Puppa]

Just keep waiting. It will level off.

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[Mark112887]

will keep my eye on it and let you know