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Hi All, On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 07:59, Hilton Travis wrote: > Hi All, > > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 07:28, Manuel Kasper wrote: > > Bert Mittelstedt wrote: > > > > > I have the same Problem on 3 m0n0walls. All have flashmemory as HDD. And > > > I use 2 different models(300MHz geodes disksize/p133 slotcpu). > > > I think it isn't a problem of a corrupt HDD. I think it happen with to > > > less memory. Mine are equipped with 32MB (-512k for vga). Because after > > > you get the error-message you can read something interesting in the > > > system-log > > > > > > ---------------------------------- > > > Feb 10 21:51:55 > > > /kernel: pid 1358 (mount_mfs), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > > ---------------------------------- > > > > > > The older ftp update function worked with this computers. > > > > Definitely too little RAM there. HTTP uploads via PHP take up more > > memory than FTP (I think PHP reads the whole file into memory first)... > > if I can't find a way to reduce the memory usage, we'll just have to > > bump the minimum recommended amount of memory to 48 or even 64 MB, as > > this is a sign that 32 MB are simply barely enough and even using > > several memory-intensive standard m0n0wall features at once could lead > > to the same problem... > > That could well be it - I have only 32MB in this system. Looks like > I'll have to toss another 32MB DIMM into it and retry the update. > However, the first time I had the update fail was using the ftp method. > > Looking at the screen attached to the m0n0wall as it tries and fails the > update, I can see "swap_pager_getswapspace: failed". I hadn't noticed > this before as I don't normally have a monitor attached to my m0n0wall. > This indicates that the swap is too small - indicating that the system > needs more RAM (as m0n0wall uses RAM for swap). I bumped my m0n0wall from 32MB to 64MB, and the firmware uploaded perfectly using Firebird 0.7 on Linux. Thanks everyone for your input - looks like we have a definite answer and solution for this issue. :) Manuel, yes, it definitely looks like you need to bump the minimum ram to greater than 32MB - I know 64MB works, but not having any 16MB DIMMs here, I couldn't try 48MB. If someone else can try the 48MB RAM amount, I'm sure it would be appreciated by Manuel. -- Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 Quark Computers http://www.QuarkAV.com/ (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.net/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |