pve 9 "memory on pfsense ? "

[frankz]

hi to all , I view in the gui of proxmox 9 the amount ram of pfsense . The bar indicate 100% full but the system in to pfsense indicate ove 962Mb free .

last pid: 29766;  load averages:  0.16,  0.29,  0.18  up 0+00:07:02    12:09:31
287 threads:   3 running, 251 sleeping, 33 waiting
CPU:  3.1% user,  0.2% nice,  1.3% system,  0.6% interrupt, 94.8% idle
Mem: 518M Active, 134M Inact, 317M Wired, 962M Free
ARC: 132M Total, 22M MFU, 105M MRU, 276K Anon, 752K Header, 4066K Other
     104M Compressed, 240M Uncompressed, 2.30:1 Ratio
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

 

[mr44er]

Install guest agent (that is among other things there for communication VM<->host) in pfsense, then reboot pfsense and check again. In opnsense it is available as clickable plugin, pfsense should be similar.

 

[frankz]

Install guest agent (that is among other things there for communication VM<->host) in pfsense, then reboot pfsense and check again. In opnsense it is available as clickable plugin, pfsense should be similar.

Thank you but already installed !

 

[mr44er]

Your screenshot says "no guest agent configured".
Then something is not right.

 

[BobhWasatch]

Do you pass thru any PCI devices? All memory must be pinned in that case.

 

[aaron]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9#VM_Memory_Consumption_Shown_is_Higher this should answer it

 

[frankz]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9#VM_Memory_Consumption_Shown_is_Higher this should answer it

Thank you , but the problem extended to windows VM ... I'm force enable balloon device .

 

[aaron]

Thank you , but the problem extended to windows VM ... I'm force enable balloon device .

Besides the Ballooning Device being enabled, is the BalloonService running in the Windows VM?

The guest does not report back any detailed memory usage information.

• For example, FreeBSD is known to not report memory usage details, which includes popular firewalls like pfSense or OPNsense.
• If the BalloonService on a Windows guest is not installed or not running.

Does it go down after a bit of waiting? In the screenshot, the VM has an uptime of 36 seconds... chances are that the VM hasn't fully booted yet and therefore the BalloonService might not be running yet.

 

[mr44er]

for comparison my opnsense-VM with ballooning enabled and running qemu-guest-agent inside with ~60 days uptime.

 

[aaron]

View attachment 91143
for comparison my opnsense-VM with ballooning enabled and running qemu-guest-agent inside with ~60 days uptime.

This is a screenshot from pre PVE 9, though, right?

 

[mr44er]

This is a screenshot from pre PVE 9, though, right?

No, still on 8. I was therefore surprised by the sentence "FreeBSD is known to not report memory usage details, which includes popular firewalls like pfSense or OPNsense."