Re: Snort 1.8.6 -vs- Snort 1.9.0 Memmory Usage

[Erek Adams <erek () theadamsfamily net>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Steven P. Donegan wrote:

> I've been working on an embedded snort - and came to a very rude awakening
> when I tried Snort 1.9.0 - 1.8.6 seemed to be quite happy in a 64M space -
> Snort 1.9.0 however uses almost 50 megabytes - thus leaving my little
> swapless embedded hardware with a whopping 6M of free RAM. What caused the
> sudden increase in RAM usage? And more to the point is there anything that
> can be done to reduce it's footprint a bit?

spp_conversation and spp_portscan2 happened.  :)

IIRC, you can tune the mem limits with converstaion which will also handle
the mem limits to ps2.

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams
Nifty-Type-Guy
TheAdamsFamily.Net



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