From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 13:48:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C39516A4DD for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:48:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from mail.dunhill.ws (network191-36.wctc.net [209.94.191.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F25A43D46 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:48:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from [10.0.0.172] (77puntacana97.codetel.net.do [200.88.97.77]) by mail.dunhill.ws (Weasel v1.73); 29 Aug 2006 09:48:29 -0400 Message-ID: <44F445A3.4040900@2012.vi> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:48:19 -0400 From: beno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Marquette , freebsd-pf@freebsd.org References: <44F306B4.3090103@2012.vi> <55e8a96c0608281222p7928076evb279ceccc7b135cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55e8a96c0608281222p7928076evb279ceccc7b135cf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Exceeded Allotted Memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter \(pf\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:48:41 -0000 Bill Marquette wrote: > On 8/28/06, beno wrote: >> Hi; >> In trying to enable/run my pf ruleset with a rather large table >> I get an error that states that table is too large to load into memory. > > What's your definition of "rather large"? 1093632 bytes > >> What memory? What do I need to free up? > > System memory and who knows until we know system specs and what > "rather large" is defined as. As has been pointed out in some of your > previous threads, you need to provide more information for people to > help you. I wish I could say you're the only people to have pointed that out . I suppose some people are better equipped for computer programming than others, just like some are better equipped for basketball than others, and this is my Achilles Heel. Not by way of excuse, just by way of waking up to the same problem repeatedly. At any rate, what info do you need? server167# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 75481758 64151300 5291918 92% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev devfs 1 1 0 100% /var/named/dev server167# du -s /etc/ 5536 /etc/ OS: FreeBSD 6.1 TIA, beno