GT-AXE 16000 Latest Merlin and latest Stock both have memory leaks

[cc666]

I can verify this with both Merlin 386.6 and Stock 24329 Firmwares.

About 42 devices connected
NO QOS - NO VPN - NO DNS Director - DNS over TLS active
IP reservations

Simple setup. This happened to me twice now on each firmware.

Stock - 30% free memory on reboot - after 7 days the memory jumps to 38% at that point I had a complete router freeze - All connections dropped -
Merlin - 27% free memory on fresh reboot - after 8 days the memory jumps to 35% at that point I had a complete router freeze - All connections dropped -

Simular situations (same code I guess). Has anyone else had this happen to them? When the connections drop they never come back, its a complete router freeze only recoverable by a reboot. Any ideas?

CC

 

[RMerlin]

I have 23 days of uptime on my GT-AXE16000, and currently have 62% of my RAM free. You must have something else using that memory or causing these freezes.

If it were memory related, you would be much closer to having 0% free. 35% is plenty sufficient.

 

[Ripshod]

Do you have a USB HDD/SSD/Thumbdrive plugged in?

 

[cc666]

Do you have a USB HDD/SSD/Thumbdrive plugged in?

I do NOT have any USB plugged in

Charlie

 

[Tech9]

Any ideas?

You can check in SSH, top what is using the RAM and what processes are running. Your router freezes are caused by something else, not RAM related.