Re: m0n0wall 1.3b18 : file system full

Benoit Bégin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
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I thought that the logging was "circular" (newer events overwrite the oldest ones when the ramdisk is full) ?

Benoit

Benoit Bégin--- On Thu, 11/5/09, John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote:

From: John Stoffel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall 1.3b18 : file system full
To: "Chris Buechler" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Received: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:06 PM

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Buechler <[email protected]> writes:

Chris> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for you answer.
>> My hardware is a pentium IV with 512 mB of RAM
>> More than 200 students are connected.
>> 
>> I set only "Captive portal" and syslog is enable on a remote server
>> 
>> Before I reboot, I saw that memory  was only 15% busy
>> and logs said "file system full"
>> 

Chris> The file system that's full is RAM, it's running from RAM
Chris> disk. If you have a very large DHCP leases file it will fill up
Chris> the memory disk.  Your only option may be to switch to using
Chris> some other system as a DHCP server.

Or hack your m0n0wall to increase the size of the RAM disk.  512Mb of
RAM is alot, so you could easily dedicate 256Mb to a RAM disk without
losing other functionality.

John

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