* andrei tanase <[email protected]> [2011-04-20 19:05]:
> i manage an 4.6 obsd router/firewall for a friend's company. it will
> panic every 10-14 days,
> even with GENERIC kernel. first fix was to schedule a reboot from
> cron every week.
> 
> i looked into this recently. vmstat -m shows huge usage for
> pfruleitempl, about 100
> megabytes per day. looking into pf.c i see that space is requested
> in pfruleitempl for every
> packet that matches a rule but is not released if said packet does
> not create a state.
> 
> fix:

that code is entirely different these days, and I believe I hunted &
fixed these cases in australia, early 2010.

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