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donawalt
Mar 31, 2025Mentor
Memory leak now occurring again on 970s!
I think I am experiencing a memory leak on both 970 satellites again. The 971 router is fine. All operations are otherwise fine.
I'll bet that one or both will crash and restart sometime soon. While they are still up, any of the Netgear folks copied below, is there a strategy that would help you watch this? Would logs have anything useful? Is there anything I can do to help discover the cause(s) of this?
I noticed this probably starting about 10 days ago. The Orbis have been up 40 days now, so it probably started about day 30. Prior to that, they both hung around 600MB-610MB all the time. I only have about 25 devices on the network, and nothing new has been added, nor have the usage characteristics changed in any obvious way.
I started keeping track of the daily usage 5 days ago, here is what it looks like (I check around 7AM-8AM local time daily):
1st floor 970
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3/27 - 630 MB
3/28 - 640 MB
3/29 - 641 MB
3/30 - 655 MB
3/31 - 661 MB
3rd floor 970
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3/27 - 630 MB
3/28 - 641 MB
3/29 - 651 MB
3/30 - 658 MB
3/31 - 668 MB
I'll keep monitoring this, and post when one of them crashes. It's coming.
@Orbi_Ryan @Orbi_Tom @Orbi_Weber @Straq @paolam @KevinLiT @FURRYe38
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Keep us posted on when you see a reboot. 🙄
- donawaltMentor
Update: still chewing memory…
1st floor 970
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3/27 - 630 MB
3/28 - 640 MB
3/29 - 641 MB
3/30 - 655 MB
3/31 - 661 MB
4/1 - 676 MB
4/2 - 684 MB
4/3 - 697 MB4/4 - 698 MB
3rd floor 970
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3/27 - 630 MB
3/28 - 641 MB
3/29 - 651 MB
3/30 - 658 MB
3/31 - 668 MB
4/1 - 674 MB
4/2 - 677 MB
4/3 - 683 MB4/4 - 685 MB
😐
- donawaltMentor
Well the story has ended - one of the 970s crashed overnight. Its memory (and the other 970) was around 910MB last I checked yesterday. So in 40 days both 970s went from ~ 630MB to 910MB.
I rebooted the entire network. Hopefully the memory leak won't start again for awhile.