Auto Clear RAM

[EchoEum]

i am using my pi to extend my WiFi by outputting the WiFi thought the Ethernet port to another router.

Everything works well until the RAM fills up and I have to reboot the Pi.

Is there a way I can set the RAM to auto clear when it reaches a certain point?

Cheers,

Echo

[RaTTuS]

fix your code so it doesn't fill up..
how are you achieving this system ?

[W. H. Heydt]

Sounds like the software you're using has a memory leak. If properly written, it would allocate the space it needs and release space it no longer needs. As the previous poster said: Fix the software.

[TimG]

If you're not able to fix the memory leak, take a look at the Linux watchdog (https://linux.die.net/man/5/watchdog.conf). It can automatically reboot the system whenever the free memory runs dangerously low. It can even run a "repair" script before resorting to a reboot, which could attempt to kill and restart the offending process. Not a very "nice" solution, but reliable and easy to implement.

[mfa298]

i am using my pi to extend my WiFi by outputting the WiFi thought the Ethernet port to another router.

Everything works well until the RAM fills up and I have to reboot the Pi.

Is there a way I can set the RAM to auto clear when it reaches a certain point?

How are you determining your ram is filling up meaning you have to reboot ?

By default Linux will use spare ram to cache recently opened files helping to speed things up, this ram is still available to applications if they need it. For instance looking at the ram on one of my PiBs I get the following output.

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root@draco:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           434        345         89          8         40        259
-/+ buffers/cache:         46        388
Swap:           99          0         99

Whilst the first line makes it look like I've only got 89MB ram free, in reality 259MB (over half my ram) is used for the cache.
The 2nd line gives a slightly more useful set of values if you want to know what's available for running applications.

[EchoEum]

Thanks for all the replies. I did a fresh install on my SD card and everything seems to be working now.