Interesting things to look for in the current 3.0 code ...

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Peter,
I we may have a winner on the memory.  I just uploaded a new  
argus-3.0.0.
Try it with .threads.  I've only been running it for an hour or
so, but it looks muuuuuuuch better.  Fingers crossed!

Carter


On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:54:03AM -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
>> Hey Peter,
>> Well my leaks are not real, at least on my Mac, or on the 64-bit
>> intel machines,
>> but my traffic loads are not really high, so I could have a very slow
>> memory issue.
>> I'll try to replicate this tomorrow on some other hardware that I
>> have.  I did make
>> some significant changes just now, that could affect both the
>> threaded and non
>> threaded versions.  I changed the way we assign timeout values to
>> each flow.  It
>> was possible, although it appeared highly unlikely, that individual
>> flows may
>> try to use idle timeouts in the 1000's of seconds (this maybe your
>> old timestamp
>> issue, but no promises) or possibly 0, which could put them in a bin
>> that
>> may never time out (except when a matching packet hits that cache
>> then it
>> would come back into the system).  well anyway, I limited the range
>> of timeout
>> values, and possibly that could have an effect.  I've just now  
>> uploaded
>> new argus and clients.
>>
>> I'm going to let argus run all night on my mac running under
>> mallocdebug, which
>> is not a bad program.  At least it showed me that I leaked 32 bytes,
>> but thats it so
>> far ;o)
>>
>> Carter
>>
>
> 	Mine look pretty real but may be just my machine :-). Yesterday's
> argus without threads or user data:
>
> ps auxwwww | grep argus
> root      6698  1.5 96.6 4479328 3802756 ?     DLs  Aug16  12:11  
> argus -dJR -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
>
> and ra on the Mac isn't getting any data. I'm just about to try the  
> new argus
> and clients and see what happens.
>
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>
>