excessive RAM usage

[meem]

Hello, i've been trying to diagnose an issue with my pfsense build and have finally (almost certainly) narrowed it down to pfBlockerNG.

I have done multiple installs, some into proxmox (1 VM across the whole machine), and some on bare metal. On my most recent install I didn't even bother to restore from backup, instead reconfiguring the entire system from scratch.

So what happens is I get 100% swap maxed on my 8Gb RAM machine and need to reboot. Unbound is >11Gb, which given the extent of my enabled feeds list feels really disproportionate?

The enabled feeds are:

pfB_PRI1_v4	19,501	
DNSBL_EasyList	3,402	
DNSBL_ADs	71,763	
DNSBL_Malicious	165,171	
DNSBL_hpHosts	717,337

top:

 last pid: 30150;  load averages:  0.66,  0.54,  0.44                                                                                                               up 2+18:14:27  16:34:30
 67 processes:  1 running, 64 sleeping, 2 waiting
 CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  6.9% system,  0.0% interrupt, 93.1% idle
 Mem: 6917M Active, 52K Inact, 861M Wired, 617M Buf, 37M Free
 Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Used, K Free, 100% Inuse
 
   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 28544 root          1  20    0  7812K  3112K CPU2    2   0:00   0.04% top
 44668 root          1  20    0  4644K  1880K select  3   0:01   0.04% clog_pfb
 46479 nobody        1  20    0 10868K  5124K select  2   0:19   0.03% darkstat
 54428 root          5  52    0  6900K  2016K uwait   3   0:12   0.02% dpinger
 20699 root          1  20    0 12904K  5888K select  3   0:00   0.01% sshd
 45573 dhcpd         1  20    0 12580K  2196K select  0   0:00   0.01% dhcpd
 43012 root          1  20    0 12908K 13012K select  3   0:09   0.01% ntpd
 96605 root          1  20    0 10436K  5324K kqread  1   0:00   0.00% lighttpd_pfb
   339 root          1  20    0 94292K  8504K kqread  3   0:06   0.00% php-fpm
 15832 root          1  20    0  6600K  1856K bpf     3   0:11   0.00% filterlog
 34948 unbound       4  22    0 11300M     0K pfault  2   0:25   0.00% <unbound>
  1287 root          1  22    0  8841M     0K pfault  2   0:20   0.00% <unbound-checkconf>
   340 root          1  52    0 98844K 14372K piperd  3   0:08   0.00% php-fpm
 18959 root          1  52   20  6968K     0K wait    2   0:07   0.00% <sh>
  6254 root          1  20    0  6400K  2008K select  0   0:05   0.00% syslogd
   341 root          1  52    0 94488K     0K accept  2   0:02   0.00% <php-fpm>
 37594 root          1  52    0 94488K     0K accept  2   0:01   0.00% <php-fpm>
 97162 root          1  23    0 51308K  1164K piperd  3   0:01   0.00% php
 29657 root          1  41   20 25424K     0K pfault  1   0:00   0.00% <unbound-control>
 42631 root          1  20    0  6368K     0K WAIT    0   0:00   0.00% <cron>
 96743 root          1  20    0 51308K  6244K piperd  1   0:00   0.00% php
 42079 root          1  20    0 23592K     0K kqread  2   0:00   0.00% <nginx>
 65015 root          2  34    0  6528K  1912K piperd  3   0:00   0.00% sshg-blocker
 44931 root          1  20    0 51372K  5156K piperd  1   0:00   0.00% php_pfb
 96827 root          1  52    0 51308K  4844K piperd  3   0:00   0.00% php
   417 root          1  20    0  9184K   312K select  3   0:00   0.00% devd

[Gertjan]

Hi,

You you have the "TLD" option checked ?

If so, click on the blue "I" - right after the red text.

So : uncheck TLD, or go out and buy really huge RAM sticks.
Or remove some feeds.