RE: SNORT has memory leak on Linux Red hat 9

[SN ORT <snort_on_acid () yahoo com>]

I always thought RedHat consumed most of your memory,
no matter how much you have or how much is being used
by programs, for the purpose of caching. I mean, why
let memory sit there while it could be used to
cache/buffer everything? Not necessarily a bad
thing... I recently went to FreeBSD for performance
issues with RH and Snort. FreeBSD doesn't use the
slower libcap, for one thing. Neways, I don't think
you have a memory leak, but you should check using the
'top' command to be sure it is not a program that has
the leak. 

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Kumar, Manoj wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:14:31 -0500
> From: "Kumar, Manoj" <kumarm () netscout com>
> To: Jeremy Hewlett <jh () sourcefire com>,
snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Cc: snort-devel () lists sourceforge net,
snort-announce () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] SNORT has memory leak on
Linux Red hat 9
> Hello everybody,
> I am running SNORT ver 2.1.0 to capture data from my
giga bit network on RedHat Linux 9 where SNORT is
capturing 100MB of data per minute (Lots of data).
Problem is that memory usage keeps going as long as
SNORT is running.
> WORST thing is that even if you kill the SNORT
process, it doesn't release the memory. Memory usage
remains as it is.
> Would you guys please help me out? Why SNORT is
behaving like this and anybody has noticed this
problem?
> Thanks
> Manoj

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