Re: Memory leak in snort?

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

snort user wrote:
> I take it back.
> I meant "that might be one possible place" and not "that might be only
> possible place"
As it turns out, that's precisely what the problem is.  I commented out 
both stream4 preprocessor lines in the snort.conf file and restarted 
snort, and swapinfo reported 58MB of swap in use for over 24 hours.  I 
uncommented them, restarted snort, and swap usage began to climb again. 
 It was up to 1.6GB when I commented them out again and restarted snort.

Hopefully someone at snort can take a look at this and figure out where 
the memory leak is.

If you need details from me, email me.  This is a FreeBSD box running 
dual amd/64 processors.

--
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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