pfBlockerNG errors when GoeIP enabled

Techsanity

I have only been using pfSense a couple weeks now and I installed pfBlockerNG to use for ad blocking. That has been working fine.
Then I saw you could also use it to block other countries using GeoIP. I watched a quick video on setting it up / using it. Highlight what you want then choose the list action and then save.
after doing this I started seeing a red notification bell and these are an example of the errors I'm getting

Filter Reload
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:23:48
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:25:01
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:26:32
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:30:09
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:30:38
	•	There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:32: cannot load &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v6.txt&quot;: No such file or directory - The line in question reads [32]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v6&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v6.txt&quot; @ 2018-08-08 19:31:58
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BBcan177

In pfSense > System > Advanced > Firewall & NAT > "Firewall Maximum Table Entries"

The package should default that to "2000000" entries.

Follow that with a Filter Reload

Techsanity

That setting was default to 400000. I'll change it and try again.
Thanks
Edit: Tried and works without errors now.
Thanks

BrainLinq

@BBcan177 said in pfBlockerNG errors when GoeIP enabled:

In pfSense > System > Advanced > Firewall & NAT > "Firewall Maximum Table Entries"

The package should default that to "2000000" entries.

Follow that with a Filter Reload

Hello,

I have 2 new Netgate firewalls and they both had this issue. I set the "Firewall Maximum Table Entries" as directed on both... the problem is resolved on one and is still occurring on one.

Error:

There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:48: cannot define table pfB_Top_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [48]: table &lt;pfB_Top_v4&gt; persist file &quot;/var/db/aliastables/pfB_Top_v4.txt&quot;
@ 2019-08-20 10:26:33

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

RonpfS

@BBcan177 said in pfBlockerNG errors when GoeIP enabled:

In pfSense > System > Advanced > Firewall & NAT > "Firewall Maximum Table Entries"

The package should default that to "2000000" entries.

Follow that with a Filter Reload

Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries again.

BrainLinq

@RonpfS said in pfBlockerNG errors when GoeIP enabled:

@BBcan177 said in pfBlockerNG errors when GoeIP enabled:

In pfSense > System > Advanced > Firewall & NAT > "Firewall Maximum Table Entries"

The package should default that to "2000000" entries.

Follow that with a Filter Reload

Increase Firewall Maximum Table Entries again.

I increased it to 3000000 and had the same issue when reloading the filter.

What is the maximum upper limit?

The systems are:
Netgate SG-3100
ARM Cortex-A9 r4p1 (ECO: 0x00000000)
Multiprocessing, Thumb2, Security, VMSAv7, Coherent Walk
2 CPUs:
SOC: Marvell 88F6820, TClock 250MHz, Frequency 1600MHz
Crypto: Marvell Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator
2028 MiB memory

RonpfS

@BrainLinq Did you ran a Force Reload All ?
2GB isn't much memory if you are using DNSBL.

BBcan177

After changing the "Max Table Entries", try a Reboot.