Just out of curiosity. My 8GB RasPi uses 72 - 76% of his memory most of the time. After running the debug I found out that the system alone takes 46%. How can umbrel even run on a 4GB RasPi (8GB is only recommended, not mandatory)? Memory usage total used free shared…

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Hey, This certainly doesn’t sound good. Out of interest, what is the uptime of your Umbrel server? Can you run uptime and report this back? Thanks, Steve

Would you be able to run journalctl -n 100 -u dhcpcd and email me what this returns at: steve@umbrel.com ?

Hey @nevets963 , I’m afraid I found a solution myself by just rebooting my umbrel (did that before your 2nd post) and now the memory used by the system in down to 1.4 GB. Sorry for the (unnecessary) confusion and thanks alot for your offer. :slightly_smiling_face:

Ok no problem! If it happens again, could you at me again on here? Or email me? Thanks, Steve

Very interesting tread. This is how it looks on my Pi4 with 4GB after 12 days. [z8]

@Floki , thanks for sharing. How many channels does your node have and how much (roughly) traffic do you route per week?

None yet, since I haven’t set up any channels yet.

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