Bug #12058
closed
pfBlockerNG / "Cannot allocate memory" from Geo blocking IP list
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Description
My pfsense emailed me an error yesterday:
```
Notifications in this message: 1
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17:04:38 There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:30: cannot define table pfB_GeoIPBlockPublicIP7_v4: Cannot allocate memory - The line in question reads [30]: table <pfB_GeoIPBlockPublicIP7_v4> persist file "/var/db/aliastables/pfB_GeoIPBlockPublicIP7_v4.txt"
```
I use pfsense+ 21.05-RELEASE and pfBlockerNG-devel 3.0.0_16 (both newest currently).
The file pfB_GeoIPBlockPublicIP7_v4.txt is only 407536 bytes big, and attached here. It is a list of IPs, 25982 lines long.
My system has 8 Gib of RAM, and the dashboard shows only 24% usage.
That file just doesn't seem big enough to legitimately run out of memory...
Files
Updated by Sean McBride over 2 years ago
Just a note: this wasn't a one-off. I get this email (just about?) every time I change some firewall setting.
Updated by Viktor Gurov
Updated by Sean McBride over 2 years ago
Viktor, thanks for suggesting the duplicate. I'll see if the config change there also fixes my issue and report back here.
Updated by Sean McBride over 2 years ago
Indeed increasing that has eliminated the "Cannot allocate memory" messages.
Could the error message be improved to state not only the problem but also the solution?