Hostapd memory requirements

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +0100, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:

> Hi, it seems that hostapd eats about 600kbyte for each sta, and that is
> fine in many cases but running on an Ubiquiti Nanostation5 with only 
> 16Mbyte of RAM...

600 kB sounds awful lot compared to what really should be used.. How did
you measure this? Could you please send the .config file you used to
build hostapd? What kind of runtime configuration are you using (mainly,
which security mode)?

Unless you are using internal EAP authentication with a method that uses
TLS, the memory use should be quite minimal, i.e., just couple of
kilobytes per STA.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA