the only time i saw something like this happen before, was back when i was testing suricata and noticed that during max load for my 100 mbps bandwidth, the cpu hits 100% which triggers this kind of crash.
atm the only active packages i have are
avahi Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
dhcpd DHCP Service
dpinger Gateway Monitoring Daemon
ntpd NTP clock sync
pfb_dnsbl pfBlockerNG DNSBL service
pfb_filter pfBlockerNG firewall filter service
syslogd System Logger Daemon
unbound DNS Resolver
ntopng is disabled. i only activate when i'm actively checking something out. rest of the time i leave it off.
my pfblockerng rules not too complicated.
-malicious
-malicious2
-bbcan177
-cryptojackers
-url shorterners
-perflyst smart tv
mostly setup as this guy suggested, with some minor tweaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_a-7wQ_QU
so i don't reckon my packages are the cause of this, although i'm not too sure
but even when i'm not torrenting, sometimes when i'm just playing valorant, fragging some newbs, my internet gets cut off because of pfsense going awol. i'll just keep observing for now.
i highly doubt it's a ram issue, i have 16gb and it never maxes out.