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    Constant error message with pfBlockerNG - cannot define table pfB_Top_v6

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    • J
      jwalhous
      last edited by

      Hi,
      Active pfBlockerNG CRON JOB running for days now, can anyone please help?

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      • BBcan177B
        BBcan177 Moderator
        last edited by

        Run the following command to find the pid

        ps aux | grep pfblockerng.php
        

        Example output:

        root    46898   7.0  0.9 234092  36632  -  S     7:30PM     0:00.85 /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php cron
        

        Then to kill the process:

        kill -9 46898
        

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        • J
          jwalhous
          last edited by

          @BBcan177:

          Run the following command to find the pid

          ps aux | grep pfblockerng.php
          

          Example output:

          root    46898   7.0  0.9 234092  36632  -  S     7:30PM     0:00.85 /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php cron
          

          Then to kill the process:

          kill -9 46898
          

          This stops it yes however it happens again next time cron runs

          also my original error is still happening

          I've even tried removing pfblockerNG and reinstalling and this doesn't help either.

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          • BBcan177B
            BBcan177 Moderator
            last edited by

            @jwalhous:

            Hi,
            Can anyone please suggest a fix for the following error

            There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:45: cannot define table pfB_Top_v6: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [45]: table <pfB_Top_v6> persist file "/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v6.txt" @ 2016-09-22 10:05:36

            Regards
            Jamie

            Did you set the

            pfSense / Advanced / Firewall-NAT / Firewall Maximum Table Entries

            to  10000000  ?

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            • J
              jwalhous
              last edited by

              It's set to 14000000 and I have also tried 10000000, error still happening every now and then.
              Thanks for you help with this :-)

              Regards
              Jamie

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              • RonpfSR
                RonpfS
                last edited by

                What's the memory usage on the FW (Status / Monitoring : System Memory) ?
                What's the pfsense version, pfblockerNG version, CPU type etc?

                2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                • J
                  jwalhous
                  last edited by

                  Hi,
                  Running latest versions of everything.
                  Pfsense is running in a vm on a dell r710 server using xenserver 7

                  4 cores and 2 gig of ram, currently its using 47% of the ram.

                  Regards
                  Jamie

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                  • J
                    jwalhous
                    last edited by

                    Anyone ? this error is annoying and I assume causing pfBlockerNG to not function correctly

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                    • RonpfSR
                      RonpfS
                      last edited by

                      You don't have much memory, on my 2.5GB system, in the last 2 days, free memory is 17-35%.
                      Did you look at the pfblockerng.log ? system log?
                      Double the Firewall Maximum Table Entries until the rules loads.

                      2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
                      Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz 8GB
                      Backup 0.5_5, Bandwidthd 0.7.4_4, Cron 0.3.7_5, pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16, Status_Traffic_Totals 2.3.1_1, System_Patches 1.2_5

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                      • J
                        jwalhous
                        last edited by

                        Increased Ram to 4gb, no difference error still occurs.
                        I can't see any error in the pfblockerng.log

                        Cheers
                        Jamie

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                        • BBcan177B
                          BBcan177 Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @jwalhous:

                          Increased Ram to 4gb, no difference error still occurs.
                          I can't see any error in the pfblockerng.log

                          What does this command report?

                          wc -l /var/db/aliastables/*.txt | sort -n
                          

                          Have you tried unchecking "Keep Settings", and Disabling/Enabling the package to see if that clears this issue? (Don't forget to re-enable "keep settings")…

                          Failing the above, you might also want to download/update the MaxMind database to see if that fixes your issue:

                          php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dc
                          

                          "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

                          Website: http://pfBlockerNG.com
                          Twitter: @BBcan177  #pfBlockerNG
                          Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/new/

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                          • J
                            jwalhous
                            last edited by

                            php /usr/local/www/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.php dc

                            seems to have fixed the issue

                            thanks for your help

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