Re: Alert payloads not matching alert rules

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

Joel Esler wrote:
> Are you dropping any packets?  It seems that with 3 processes of Snort, on the same box, with only 2 Gigs of RAM 
> trying to analyze that much traffic, you are probably dropping packets in addition to Snort overwriting its own 
> memory.
>
>   
Hi Joel

Can you explain what you mean by snort overwriting it's own memory? How
is that possible? I thought standard OS process separation would stop
that? (I am assuming you meant having >1 snort process leads to one
snort process "corrupting" another)

I also routinely run multiple snort instances - this comes as a bit of a
shock...

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
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