Re: pfctl: Cannot allocate memory.

From: Marcel Bischoff <marcel_at_herrbischoff.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:14:55 UTC 
> On 28. Mar 2022, at 09:44, Kristof Provost <kp@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 27 Mar 2022, at 22:11, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> when updating a table of ~370k entries, PF sometimes refuses to do so and from then on continues to refuse until I reboot the machine.
>> 
>> $ doas pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf
>> /etc/pf.conf:27: cannot define table pfbadhost: Cannot allocate memory
>> pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded
>> 
> That sounds a lot like https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260406
> 
> My current theory is that this is a bug in the memory allocator somewhere. I do not have the background or time to debug that.

Thanks for your reply Kristof. I concur, it indeed looks a lot like the bug ticket you linked. I could spare the time but I don't have the background or capability to debug this myself. Is there anything I could do to help move this issue along?

Marcel