[pfSense Support] System overload

[Roberto Greiner]

Hi,

today I tried to put one PfSense machine into production, but got into some strange problems.

After connecting the machine to the network it should work with, during the boot process the system started to display several tim the message:

ipfw: rule 3600 does not exist

And it kept displaying that message, about once per second for almost 2 minutes.

any idea what could cause this?

Also, the same machine, after about 10 minutes slowed down to the extreme, to a point where no connection was possible at all, wheter to the webconfigurator or to the network through the machine. At the console, I managed to open a console and then execute a " top" command. Just waiting for this took about 2 minutes, and when it opened, it displayed loads varying from 3 to 20, showing only instances of lighttp and php. Despite that, the processor was showing an idle level of about 70%. The disk led was also blinking like mad.

When I managed to order a reboot command, after a few moments the console started to display the following message:

swap_pager_getswapspace(n): failed

This messages was repeated dozens of times per second, with n varying usually between 2 and 10. The reboot process did not work. After some time I had to force the shutdown through the power button.

Any ideas of what could have gone wrong?

Hardware used:
Asus PC-DL mainboard
Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz
1 GB RAM
72GB SCSI Disk
2 ethernet, 1 on-board, 1 in dedicated board



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