Re: Snort High Memory Usage

[Josh Bitto <jbitto () onlineschool ca>]

I'm just doing a top on command line and looking at mem% for each snort pid that comes up for the sensors.

We had Emerging threats and the original snort rules enabled. Took ET off and that took the memory down some, but I 
don't want to sacrifice that if I can help it.


-----Original Message-----
From: waldo kitty [mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net] 
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:20 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort High Memory Usage

On 5/31/2013 17:46, Josh Bitto wrote:
> Currently I’m running 7 snort sensors on my pfsense firewall and each 
> of them is at 672 mb’s for using memory. Which seems really high. I 
> believe I read somewhere in documentation that the memory is usually 
> around 200 mb’s. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

how many rules do you have enabled?

what tool are you using to view that memory consumption?

what column are those figures listed under in that tool?


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