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Constant error message with pfBlockerNG - cannot define table pfB_Top_v6

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  • J
    jwalhous
    last edited by Sep 22, 2016, 12:15 AM

    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

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      BBcan177 Moderator
      last edited by Sep 22, 2016, 12:39 AM

      Change the pfSense Advanced setting for "Max Table Entries" to 10M… Then disable/enable the package, and follow that with a "Force Reload"...

      "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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        jwalhous
        last edited by Sep 22, 2016, 8:27 AM

        Hi,
        After choosing Force reload it's been stuck on Active pfBlockerNG CRON JOB running for several hours???

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          jwalhous
          last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 11:28 PM

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

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            BBcan177 Moderator
            last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 11:33 PM

            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
            

            "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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              jwalhous
              last edited by Sep 27, 2016, 5:08 AM

              @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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                BBcan177 Moderator
                last edited by Sep 29, 2016, 4:42 PM

                @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  ?

                "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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                  jwalhous
                  last edited by Oct 1, 2016, 12:12 AM

                  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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                    RonpfS
                    last edited by Oct 1, 2016, 2:07 AM

                    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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                      jwalhous
                      last edited by Oct 2, 2016, 11:39 AM

                      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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                        jwalhous
                        last edited by Oct 4, 2016, 9:01 PM

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

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                          RonpfS
                          last edited by Oct 4, 2016, 9:56 PM

                          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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                            jwalhous
                            last edited by Oct 9, 2016, 8:46 PM

                            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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                              BBcan177 Moderator
                              last edited by Oct 10, 2016, 4:00 AM

                              @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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                                jwalhous
                                last edited by Oct 15, 2016, 12:32 AM

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

                                seems to have fixed the issue

                                thanks for your help

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