# Pi-hole stopped working after v6 update

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091 "2025-02-20T05:45:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/black_butterfly/32/12512_2.png) [@Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Black_Butterfly)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/1 "2025-02-20T05:45:35Z")

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## Expected Behaviour:

Pi-hole works and consumed around 200MB of RAM

## Actual Behaviour:

Pi-Hole is running however it's consuming 2G of RAM and 1.5G of SWAP

DNS service does not work nor does DHCP

## Debug Token:

Pi-Hole isn't running so log could not be uploaded.

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**Author:** ![Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/black_butterfly/32/12512_2.png) [@Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Black_Butterfly)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/2 "2025-02-20T06:21:32Z")

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Here is my log file since Pi-hole is unable to upload

_ **Debug log removed by moderator and made private** _

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**Author:** ![Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/black_butterfly/32/12512_2.png) [@Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Black_Butterfly)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/3 "2025-02-20T06:38:05Z")

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![image](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/3/8/385d0321d3e901bb2c833656864179d82d28e6e5.png)

Not really sure what to make of this.

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**Author:** ![wd9895](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/wd9895/32/54849_2.png) [@wd9895](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/wd9895)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/4 "2025-02-20T08:23:21Z")

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V6 on a Raspberry 2B (1GB RAM), no swapping to SD card.

 ![grafik](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/f/a/fa7e041f9314da04c2d9bd038227a20445c62caa.png)

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**Author:** ![Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/black_butterfly/32/12512_2.png) [@Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Black_Butterfly)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/5 "2025-02-22T03:41:07Z")

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I just reverted back to my v5 installaion, looks like v6 just has a lot of issues right now

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**Author:** ![Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/black_butterfly/32/12512_2.png) [@Black\_Butterfly](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Black_Butterfly)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/9 "2025-02-22T07:31:03Z")

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Fixed the issue with Pi-hole consuming all the memory of the host.

The server's time wasnt set correctly due to an error with the host. Fixing the time fixes the issue.

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/c/7c8792f649eeb921c5d2b4c41564ffa873d9a2b8.png) [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-stopped-working-after-v6-update/76091/10 "2025-03-15T07:31:36Z")

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