Error loading rules

Chasire

Hi there
I have encountered an error while loading my pfsense webinterface that says the following:

There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:20: cannot define table bogonsv6: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [20]: table <bogonsv6> persist file "/etc/bogonsv6"

I tried to fix the problem using these links:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/129127/ruleerror-there-were-errors-loading-the-rules-tmp-rules-debug-18-cannot-alloc/5
https://justinho.com/blog/2018/03/15/pfSense-Bogons.html

I have set Firewall Maximum Table Entries from 400000 to 800000 and yet I still get the error messages when restarting my pfsense router.

Any advice or comment about fixing this issue will be appreciated.

Derelict

400000 is enough. 800000 is double enough.

Something else is going on.

How much RAM in the unit?

Running anything like pfBlockerNG or anything else that likes to create massive tables?

What does this output in Diagnostics > Command prompt?

pfctl -sm

And this:

wc -l /etc/bogonsv6

and this:

ls -l /etc/bogonsv6

and this:

for table in `pfctl -sT`; do echo -n $table; pfctl -T show -t $table | wc -l ; done

Chasire

Here are the details:

This is a screenshot of my system interface at the moment.

Yes, I run pfBlockerNG. I also run squid and Snort.

Here are the results after executing the following commands:

pfctl -sm
states hard limit 20000
src-nodes hard limit 20000
frags hard limit 5000
table-entries hard limit 800000
wc -l /etc/bogonsv6
107666 /etc/bogonsv6
ls -l /etc/bogonsv6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1733644 Apr 16 10:30 /etc/bogonsv6
for table in pfctl -sT; do echo -n $table; pfctl -T show -t $table | wc -l ; done
bogons 3040
bogonsv6 107665
snort2c 0
sshguard 0
tonatsubnets 5
virusprot 0
webConfiguratorlockout 0

Derelict

That all looks fine. You should not be receiving any errors.

I question that your swap is almost half full though.

209MB RAM? That's practically nothing. I give the smallest of my test VMs 512MB. That is likely your problem.