Re: Fwd: Snort 2.9.6.0 memory leak?

[Mirek Suliba <msuliba () gmail com>]

I'm not concern about free memory but about rate how fast and constant
amount of memory used by Snort were growing. It was about 70MB per hour. I
didn't want to get to situation when system started to be our of memory.
Any suggestion at what level I should expect Snort memory usage to
stabilize? Is that any "hard" limit for this?

Thank you,

  - Mirek



On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:32 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>wrote:

> On 2/27/2014 5:32 PM, Mirek Suliba wrote:
> > Constant growth of memory usage looks a little bit scary but I hope that
> you are
> > right that it will stop at some point. I will run it for a longer period
> of time
> > to check.
>
> is this a *nix box? if yes, *nix will properly use memory to the
> fullest... it
> is quite normal to see a *nix box using 98% RAM... winwhatever boxen, on
> the
> other hand, have been much different over the years... using all available
> memory is not a bad thing... it is, in fact, a very good thing... as long
> as it
> doesn't keep growing beyond what is truly needed ;)
>
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