Argus memory issues

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Mon Aug 20 15:46:35 EDT 2007


	The LAYER_3_MATRIX does seem to keep memory down:

ps auxwwww | grep argus
root     25451  7.8  1.4  61732 57272 ?        SLs  12:03   2:38 argus -d -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root     25714  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/0    S+   12:37   0:00 grep argus

half an hour in and still at 60K :-).

	OK, I set ARGUS_IPTIMEOUT to 0 and recompiled (without threads)
removed LAYER_3_MATRIX again and started it up and we will see how it does:

hcids:/scratch # vi argus.conf

ARGUS_COLLECTOR=no~

hcids:/scratch # !1055
argus -d  -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m  -F /scratch/argus.conf
hcids:/scratch # !ps
ps auxwwww | grep argus
root     25722  8.1  1.3  55944 51288 ?        SLs  12:38   0:02 argus -d -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root     25724  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/0    S+   12:38   0:00 grep argus
...
hcids:/scratch # ps auxwwww | grep argus
root     25722  8.0  1.7  73420 69060 ?        SLs  12:38   0:03 argus -d -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root     25728  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/0    S+   12:39   0:00 grep argus
...
hcids:/scratch # ps auxwwww | grep argus
root     25722  8.4  9.4 374624 370164 ?       SLs  12:38   0:30 argus -d -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root     25731  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/0    S+   12:44   0:00 grep argus

climbing a fair bit faster than before but if it levels off in a while that
would be OK (or at least better :-)). 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



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