[pfSense] rc.filter_configure_sync - Lots of them

[Ermal Luçi]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Diego Barrios <seko at techsystem.com.br> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a PFsense box (2.0.1) wich from time to time runs out of memory (it
> has 2GB).
>
> Looking at the console, i can see lots of this script (more than 500 last
> time) eating all available RAM:
>
> 47487  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 47785  ??  SN     0:00.27 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 48643  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 50647  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 51960  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 53324  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 53396  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 54010  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 54261  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
> 54731  ??  IWN    0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/php -f
> /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync
>
> How can i debug this? what is the function of this script?

You have either too many events on your system: changing ip?

Or you have some stupid package calling filter_configure_sync directly
and pile them up.
Usually they stay like that either because there are too many or
because the locking used has been messed up.

First check the packages installed.

>
> It's a pretty simple setup, with NAT and a few firewall rules, some gateways
> and gateway group for redundancy.
>
> Can someone explain this behavior?
>
> Thank You very much!
>
>
>
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Ermal