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Re: Memory leak


From: "Sid" <s_i_d_j () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 06:07:12 +0530

Hmm ... My available memory is down to 550 MB after eight hours of running
snort 1.7 ... me thinks its something other than Spade (i turned it off).

Btw, i am still getting the same crashes with Snort 1.8beta4 (Build 15).

Siddhartha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Roesch" <roesch () sourcefire com>
To: "Sid" <s_i_d_j () yahoo com>
Cc: "Fyodor" <fygrave () tigerteam net>; <william.c.gercken () census gov>; "Erek
Adams" <erek () theadamsfamily net>; <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>;
<snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Memory leak


Turn off SPADE and see if it continues...

   -Marty

Sid wrote:

----snort.conf-------
var INTERNAL [x.x.x.x/24,y.y.y.y/16]
var EXTERNAL any
var SMTP $INTERNAL
var HTTP_SERVERS $INTERNAL
var DNS_SERVERS [a.a.a.a/32,b.b.b.b/32]

preprocessor minfrag: 256
preprocessor defrag
preprocessor stream: timeout 10, ports 21 23 80, maxbytes 16384
preprocessor http_decode: 80
preprocessor portscan: $INTERNAL 4 3 portscan.log
preprocessor portscan-ignorehosts: $DNS_SERVERS

var SPADEDIR /usr/local/snort/spade
preprocessor spade: 10.5 $SPADEDIR/spade.rcv $SPADEDIR/log.txt 3 50000
preprocessor spade-homenet: 202.87.0.0/16
preprocessor spade-threshlearn: 200 24
preprocessor spade-survey:  $SPADEDIR/survey.txt 60
preprocessor spade-stats: entropy uncondprob condprob

output database: alert, mysql, user=root password=xxxx dbname=snort
host=localhost
output alert_full: alert
-------------------------------------------------------------

cmdline switches :-
-----------------------
/usr/local/snort/bin/snort -D -d -C -i hme1 -c
/usr/local/snort/conf/snort.conf -l /usr/local/snort/log/snort
-----------------------

Siddhartha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fyodor" <fygrave () tigerteam net>
To: "Sid" <s_i_d_j () yahoo com>
Cc: "Martin Roesch" <roesch () sourcefire com>;
<william.c.gercken () census gov>;
"Erek Adams" <erek () theadamsfamily net>;
<snort-users () lists sourceforge net>;
<snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Memory leak

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:43:32PM +0530, Sid wrote:
No guys!!! This is Snort 1.7. On Solaris 2.6/UltraSparc-II (Dual, 1
GB
RAM).


can we see your snort.conf and cmdline switches if possible? :)

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