pid xxx (suricata), jid 0, uid 0, was killed: failed to reclaim memory

[proutfoo]

Hello,

I am new to the IDS setup and i created a schedule to update the rules once a day. However when it comes to reloading after the successful download, both suricata and unbound crash and do not restart;

2024-02-24T02:14:23   Notice   kernel   <3>pid 61010 (unbound), jid 0, uid 59, was killed: failed to reclaim memory   
2024-02-24T02:14:23   Notice   kernel   <3>pid 97109 (suricata), jid 0, uid 0, was killed: failed to reclaim memory   
2024-02-24T02:12:03   Notice   rule-updater.py   download completed for https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata-7.0/emerging.rules.tar.gz   
2024-02-24T02:12:02   Notice   rule-updater.py   version response for https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata-7.0/version.txt : 10539   
2024-02-24T02:12:01   Notice   rule-updater.py   download completed for https://threatfox.abuse.ch/downloads/threatfox_suricata.rules   
2024-02-24T02:12:01   Notice   rule-updater.py   download completed for https://feodotracker.abuse.ch/downloads/feodotracker.rules   
2024-02-24T02:12:01   Notice   rule-updater.py   download completed for https://sslbl.abuse.ch/blacklist/sslipblacklist.rules   
2024-02-24T02:12:00   Notice   rule-updater.py   download completed for https://sslbl.abuse.ch/blacklist/sslblacklist_tls_cert.rules

any tips how to fix this?  I have 6GB available to this opnsense VM, going to try and move it up to 8 and see if its running out of RAM perhaps?

[proutfoo]

I doubled RAM to 12G and 48 hours later its still going so I guess I was running out of available memory.