Re: Performance profiling not working snort 2.8.6

["Andy Berryman" <aberryman () Cymtec com>]

Thanks for the tip. I found the issue though. Turns out it was the way I
was stopping and starting snort. I wasn't using "kill -SIGHUP
<snort_pid>"

I was just using a convoluted script to kill snort and restart it. 

PID=`ps -elf | grep '\<snort\>' | grep -v grep | grep -v bash | awk
'{print $4}'`;
kill -kill $PID  > /dev/null 2>&1;


Thanks for the tips!
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: tgiles () echoforest org [mailto:tgiles () echoforest org] 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:07 PM
To: Andy Berryman
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Performance profiling not working snort 2.8.6

Try adding "--perfmon-file /tmp/snort.perfmon.csv" at the end of your
command line. for example, this is the commandline I have for one of my
systems:

/opt/snort/bin/snort -i eth3 -c /opt/snort/etc/snort.conf -D -F
/opt/snort/excludes.conf --perfmon-file
/opt/snort/snort.perfmon.eth3.csv

Cheers,

tom


-----Original Message-----
From: "Andy Berryman" <aberryman () Cymtec com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:49am
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Performance profiling not working snort 2.8.6

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performance profiling turned on and am trying to some diagnostics. But
no file is being created when snort restarts and the preprocessors
aren't being profiled. The only thing that is working is the
"preprocessor perfmonitor:"

 

This is the options we've compiled snort with. 

--enable-decoder-preprocessor-rules --enable-dynamicplugin
--enable-perfprofiling --enable-gre --enable-timestats
--enable-linux-smp-stats --enable-targetbased --enable-corefiles

 

Here's my snort.conf:

 

config profile_preprocs

config profile_rules: print 100, sort total_ticks, filename
/var/log/perf.txt

preprocessor perfmonitor: \

time 30 events flow max console pktcnt 10000

 

Thanks,

Andy Berryman


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