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RN204 crashes shortly after boot
For a couple days, I've been having the issue where deleting large files / lots of files results in a crash where the panel will either display "__out_of_memory + 354" or the RN204 will just become u...
My guess is that an OS reinstall won't help. Your issue seems triggered by your volume state, and an OS reinstall doesn't change that.
A factory default destroys the data volume, so that will certainly work.
You could of course try support (though they likely will charge).
ibell63 wrote:
This time around I've disabled Bit rot protection and compression on all of my shares, and I've noticed that although the data volume is relatively full, I've not had a single issue with it. Is it possible that this issue is being caused by either (or both) of these options? I would think that compression/decompression would be memory intensive, and/or possibly some of the functions that go along with the CoW functions.
Certtainly CoW (particularly snapshots) can create performance issues when the volume is too full. Compression/Decompression is of course also going to increase memory and reduce performance.
I'm thinking that more users enable bit-rot protection than use compression, so compression might be a more likely cause.
Thanks for the response. I'm going to continue using it as is and I'll post here if I have issues as the drive fills up. I'm certainly not going to fill it up anymore than 95% full, but I was dissappointed to have such serious issues with the volume when it was only ~85% full last time.
Is there a recommended amount of free space?
Edit: I should note that the volume is currently 87% full with no issues.
We start warning about volume usage at 70% full.
Keeping volume usage under 80% would be optimal.
Scheduled volume maintenance can help even if volume usage is a little higher.
The RN204 has 2GB RAM which should be more than enough.
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