Thanks Ryan! Unfortunately when this happened I was remote and could not 
grab those stats.  But what should I be looking for in term of badness.  
Maybe I can quickly setup something to monitor for particular stat.  
Really appreciate your input.

Thx.

On 12/3/10 12:41 AM, Ryan McBride wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:22:08PM -0500, Godesi wrote:
>> 1.  Do I need pf for relayd when I am not doing redirects?
> I don't think so, but this is easy for you to test...
>
>
>> 2.  How much states can i "really" have on a box that has 4 gig ram?
> More than 100,000. I havn't tested lately (planning to do so soo), but I
> would expect somewhere closer to 500,000.
>
>
>> Is it governed by how much mem is allocated to kernel?
> Yes.
>
>> Can I change that?
> Not directly. In fact, having too much RAM in your box will COST you
> memory, as more kernel memory is used up tracking all your RAM. So
> cutting your ram to 2 GB will probably improve the upper limit, though
> it doesn't seem that that's the limit you are hitting.
>
>
> What does 'pfctl -vvsi' show when this problem is happening?