Nginx memory usage

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There are two nginx processes on my opal router using 20% of the memory. After the router is configured correctly, can I shut down the nginx service ? Or they are necessary ?

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Nginx is used to run the GL GUI. IDK how much RAM is in the Opal but Nginx takes ~34 MB on my Slate AX (404MB RAM) running v4.6.8-release1:

/etc/init.d/nginx {stop, start} && /etc/init.d/gl-ngx-session {stop, start} should be safe enough. Just reboot if anything seems out of sorts before committing to fully disable.

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Thanks. I agree with you that being a single user system, nginx could be overikill, I have only 128MB on the opal. These are my top processes sorted by memory;

4171  4071 root     S    12136  10%   0% nginx: worker process
4173  4071 root     S    11460  10%   0% nginx: worker process
5005     1 root     S     8684   7%   0% /usr/bin/lua /usr/bin/gl_clients_update
4071     1 root     S     7848   7%   0% nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -g daemon off;
2846     1 root     S     5628   5%   0% /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -s -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant-sta0.pid -D nl80211
4438     1 root     S     5248   4%   0% /usr/bin/sms_manager
790     1 root     S     4964   4%   0% eco /usr/sbin/gl-ngx-session
4506     1 root     S     4780   4%   0% /usr/sbin/usbmuxd disable
2977     1 root     S     4464   4%   0% /usr/sbin/uhttpd -f -h /www -r GL-SFT1200 -x /cgi-bin -t 60 -T 30 -k 20 -A 1 -
1082     1 root     S     4116   3%   0% /usr/bin/eco /usr/sbin/gl-repeater

I f you sum the entries, il will reach maybe 50%. Also the uhttpd is running along with ngnix.

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128MB, huh? So that matches my Certa. I'll probably end up doing the same in shutting it down. You could always add an alias or two to ~/.profile to save some keystrokes if/when you need to bring it up/down after logging in.

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Have a good one.

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