Re: Snort spikes to 100% CPU followed by network latency

[Cody Brugh <cbrugh () gmail com>]

Russ,

I am still having latency/CPU spike issues even after enabling PPM
configuration.... In the below logs where does it tell me which rule SIG ID
so I can disable the rules that are causing me slowness?


PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[20570] address=0x0x8200f80 re-enabled
05/27-18:26:27.989936
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[20570] suspended (72.194.88.31:53484 -> 10.2.14.21:80).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[20570] address=0x0x8200f80 used=52.7766 usecs suspended
05/27-18:26:27.989936
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[30776] address=0x0x3c28fb0 re-enabled
05/27-18:26:36.195293
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[36115] suspended (10.2.13.17:80 -> 164.113.217.51:41204
).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[36115] address=0x0x3c28fb0 used=54.8616 usecs suspended
05/27-18:26:40.813898
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[47155] address=0x0x8200f80 re-enabled
05/27-18:26:48.038002
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[48185] suspended (66.87.133.205:4163 -> 10.2.2.4:80).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[48185] address=0x0x8200f80 used=53.992 usecs suspended
05/27-18:26:49.081371
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[60578] address=0x0x3c28fb0 re-enabled
05/27-18:27:00.867186
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[71509] suspended (10.2.13.48:80 -> 96.44.123.180:1046).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[71509] address=0x0x3c28fb0 used=54.4075 usecs suspended
05/27-18:27:08.522285
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[72989] address=0x0x8200f80 re-enabled
05/27-18:27:09.766234
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[76364] suspended (10.2.13.1:35718 -> 66.135.58.62:80).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[76364] address=0x0x8200f80 used=76.2302 usecs suspended
05/27-18:27:15.130825
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[77634] suspended (66.8.180.174:64983 -> 10.2.13.17:80).
PPM: Rule-Event Pkt[77634] address=0x0x820c0b0 used=53.126 usecs suspended
05/27-18:27:17.180899




On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Russ Combs (rucombs) <rucombs () cisco com>wrote:

>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Cody Brugh [cbrugh () gmail com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:13 PM
> *To:* snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> *Subject:* [Snort-users] Snort spikes to 100% CPU followed by network
> latency
>
>      Hello,
>
>  We have been running snort in-line for over a year now with no issues in
> terms of latency or CPU usage.  Recently (over the past month) snort will
> all of the sudden spike CPU usage up to 100% and network latency becomes
> real bad, 1000+ms.
>
>  I am really not sure where to start on figuring out what is causing
> this.  I am starting snort so it prints the alerts/drops on the console and
> don't see any specific rule that would be causing this.
>
>  Any advise on this issue?
>
>  * Did you change your Snort version or configuration around the time you
> started seeing the issue?  How frequently does this occur?  And when it
> happens does it resolve itself or do you restart or what?
>
>  You can turn on PPM (config ppm ...) and enable the PPM rules (gid 134).
>  That may catch the problem packet which you can log and examine for clues.
>
>  Without any clues I'd first check for SDF and PCRE.  If you have SDF
> (preprocessor sensitive_data) configured you can try commenting that out.
>  If you have any pcre/O rules (PCRE override) you can try commenting those
> out too.
>
>  Snort OS: CentOS, 64-bit
>
>   o"  )~   Version 2.9.6.1 GRE (Build 56)
>    ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
> http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
>            Copyright (C) 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights
> reserved.
>            Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
>            Using libpcap version 1.0.0
>            Using PCRE version: 7.8 2008-09-05
>            Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3
>
> DAQ version: 2.0.2
>
>  Thanks!
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