Two virtually identical routers which consistently use memory differently

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rseiler
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Two virtually identical routers which consistently use memory differently

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Are there any tools available besides ls (which isn't showing any smoking gun that I can see) for figuring out why two routers of the same model, with the same version of Gargoyle, rebooted at the same time, with a similar number of hosts, and configured all but identically (the slight differences I know about shouldn't be doing this) could show a consistent difference in the amount of RAM used?

One is always (after some use, not immediately after booting) floating around 55MB free, while the other is 80-85MB free. They're 128MB routers.

Surely there's some way or command to get to the bottom of it. It's more a point of curiosity, since there isn't a problem.

One notable difference in the one using more RAM is that it was using the watchdog, but I tried disabling it and rebooting, only to find it wasn't the cause. Also, it had inadvertently been accumulating a great deal of information pertaining to web sites visited and search queries, but clearing those, disabling that function, and again rebooting soon showed that it wasn't at fault either.

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Re: Two virtually identical routers which consistently use memory differently

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What happens when you swap the routers around?

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Re: Two virtually identical routers which consistently use memory differently

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Unfortunately, I can't really do that easily based on where they're deployed (i.e. not at my house).

I wonder, is there something better than "ls" that can be installed to really break down what is being used?

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