PFSense crashes when I enable Firewall rules

DrPit

Hello,

I use a Dell Server for PFSense with the following Specifications
Intel Dual Core 3GHz with 8GB RAM

When I don't have any firrewall rule it works fine.
But when I add some rules It crashes 4-5 times a day.

Can anybody give me a clue?

wallabybob

@DrPit:

Can anybody give me a clue?

Probably not without more information: pfSense build identification, crash report etc

DrPit

Sorry,

Here is the crash Report.

Everything started yesterday with the latest snapshot.

I have attached the crashed log

Crash.txt

Klaws

The crash report looks vaguely familiar to mine from this morning…although I did not need to reload rules to trigger the crash.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64131.0.html

giorilias

I can see in the crash report:
ZFS WARNING: Recommended minimum kmem_size is 512MB; expect unstable behavior.
Consider tuning vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max
in /boot/loader.conf.

Could this cause the problem?
Is it ok to increase the value?
Where should I increase it, in the /boot/loader.conf or the /boot/loader.conf.local?

The existing values in /boot/loader.conf are:


# grep -i kmem_size /boot/loader.conf
vm.kmem_size="435544320"
vm.kmem_size_max="535544320"

DrPit

Hello,

it is strange both firewalls work fine with packet filtering disabled. But both crashes after some hours as soon as I enable packet filtering/
Any clue? I am not able to tset version 2.1 further due to this crash problem.

athurdent

Maybe this is related to your problems: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64144.0.html

DrPit

thank you for your answer,

I have followed the recommendation and downgrade the snapshot to 1/7/13.
Till now I have no crash but I still have the ftp problem.
Almost no ftp traffic passes through the firewall and from times to times I have disconnections.