Re: Memory Issue?

[Chris Green <cmg () snort org>]

"Frank Reid" <fcreid () ourcorner org> writes:

> I've been running snort on Mandrake 8.2 (2.4 kernel) for about 18
> months, and it's been great.  I use the standard rule sets and log
> alerts to a local MySQL database (3.23.53a).  Yesterday, I updated Snort
> from CVS (2.0.0beta Build 33) and started seeing strange behavior.  This
> may have been the first 2.0beta I pulled from CVS.  Anyway, as soon as I
> trigger an alert against the network (something that Snort would
> normally catch and log), I'm seeing this error:
>
>       kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp0x1d2/0)

Are you out of memory?  2.0.0 uses a lot more memory on normal than
other snorts.
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
To err is human, to moo bovine.


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