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Revision as of 01:28, 16 July 2009

Introduction

Issues occur with routers that have only 8MB ram. DD-WRT includes several features even in micro builds but many of these features will cause the router to run out of ram on routers that only have 8MB ram. However, some devices that run micro builds have have more than 8MB ram; these devices should not easily run out of ram and can enable any of the included features.

These problems may occur directly after enabling a feature but often times may not occur until using the router with heavy P2P applications that cause the router to use ram that it normally wouldn't under low load. The router may only become 'slow' over time without crashing. Some symptoms can be:

  • Slow web-interface, or cannot connect at all to web interface
  • Slowing transfer of data, e.g. browsing, after a reboot
  • Not responding to ping
  • Router crash or rebooting