Looks like a new bug in argus

[Timo Sühl]

Hi Peter,

i think the memory leak also affects me. It eats more and more memory 
and then begins to swap:

cis:~# ps aux | grep argus
root      4899  0.6 94.8 1434984 983168 ?      Dsl  Aug18   4:26 
/usr/local/sbin/argus -de cis -w /var/log/argus/argus.out

As i'm not familar with programming ... can you tell me how to disable 
the threads? Is it "-DARGUS_THREADS=X" in its Makefile?

Timo

Peter Van Epp schrieb:
> 	Another data point: setting the debug level down (til where it becomes
> active) in common/argus_util.c breaks the argus:
> 
> *** common/argus_util.c.orig    2007-08-18 16:37:06.000000000 -0700
> --- common/argus_util.c.new     2007-08-18 18:16:08.000000000 -0700
> ***************
> 
> (this one works OK) 
> 
> *** 1221,1227 ****
>   #endif
>      }
>   #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> !    ArgusDebug (6, "ArgusMalloc (%d) returning 0x%x\n", bytes, retn);
>   #endif
>      return (retn);
>   }
> --- 1221,1227 ----
>   #endif
>      }
>   #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> !    ArgusDebug (1, "ArgusMalloc (%d) returning 0x%x\n", bytes, retn);
>   #endif
>      return (retn);
>   }
> 
> (but doing this one with threads enabled hangs)
> 
> ***************
> *** 1285,1291 ****
>      }
> 
>   #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> !    ArgusDebug (6, "ArgusCalloc (%d, %d) returning 0x%x\n", nitems, bytes, retn);
>   #endif
>      return (retn);
>   }
> --- 1285,1291 ----
>      }
> 
>   #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> !    ArgusDebug (1, "ArgusCalloc (%d, %d) returning 0x%x\n", nitems, bytes, retn);
>   #endif
>      return (retn);
>   }
> 
> 
> 	It only gets this far then stops. Disabling threads makes it go again,
> so for now I have disabled threads. I'm hoping that looking at the debug output
> will tell us what memory is being lost as we should see the allocs but no 
> frees.
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada