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According to the m0n0wall page, "The recommended amount of RAM for m0n0wall is 64 MB" (http://m0n0.ch/wall/hardware.php) You may be referring to 128 MB's minimum for Pfsense. -- Joe LaGreca Founder & Owner, BIGnet Online 619-393-1733 Office 619-318-3246 Cell www.BIGnetOnline.com On 9/30/07, Christopher M. Iarocci <iarocci at eastendsc dot com> wrote: > 128M of memory is the minimum requirement these days for m0n0wall. You > might want to up it to at least the minimum and test again. However, > running a firewall in a VM is probably a bad idea. I've heard other > people here having problems doing what you are doing, and yet again > other people having no problems. Solutions are not common as far as I > remember. > > Roland Giesler wrote: > > I have a VMWare Server 1.0.3 build 44356 that runs on Windows XP. I > > had wanted to run some Linux distro, but the machine simply refused to > > even load the kernel so I installed XP. It's an IBM xSeries 200 > > server with a PIII 800 MHz processor and about 768MB of RAM. I can > > load m0n0wall on the box without any problem, but I want to also run a > > spam filter on it, hence VMWare. > > > > It's runs M0n0wall 1.231 in one VM and ESVA Spam filtering & mail > > stats in another VM. > > > > XP is on SP2. > > > > Problem is m0n0wall hangs quite often for no apparent reason. It > > happens that it runs for a day without problems and then, when it > > freezes, the CPU is at 100% with the m0n0 VM taking all available > > cycles is seems. > > > > There was an issue like this towards the end of 2006 with an earlier > > version of m0n0wall, but that seems to have been resolved, yet I have > > no idea what to do to fix this. > > > > Is this a VMWare issue or is is m0n0wall? The other VM (ESVA) runs > > fine, uses much more RAM and CPU than m0n0wall, yet never freezes, > > which to me seems to point at something thats wrong with m0n0wall. On > > the other hand I have other m0n0walls running the same version without > > any problem, but none on a VMware VM. I have changed the amount of > > RAM allocated to the m0n0 VM, and am on 64M at this stage, but none of > > it seems to make a difference. > > > > Insights, pointers or comments please? > > > > regards > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > |