On 28 Mar 2022, at 14:14, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
>> On 28. Mar 2022, at 09:44, Kristof Provost <[email protected]> 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?
>
Short of studying the memory allocation code and finding the bug, no.

Kristof

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