Argus memory issues

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Wed Aug 22 20:07:45 EDT 2007


	I was running this on a terminal window so I just HUPed it to get
stats and will redirect to a file. Still looks good, still less than 100k
footprint (I'd guess this may grow without put being created though, but 
its a good base :-)).

# argus  -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
  ArgusWarning: argus[6775]: 31 Dec 69 16:00:12.270505 started
  ArgusWarning: argus[6775]: 28 Feb 44 15:13:04.268843 ArgusGetInterfaceStatus: interface eth1 is up
  ArgusWarning: argus[6775]: 28 Feb 44 15:13:04.268843 ArgusGetInterfaceStatus: interface eth0 is up
argus: Time 25431.362659 Flows 20121177  Closed 20121177  Sends 21135446  BSends 8482    
       Updates 362246697 Cache 342125520
       Total Memory 164306859 Free 164306857 MaxBytes 2147483412
Source: 
    Total Pkts 170915240  Rate 6720.648134
/nSource: 
    Total Pkts 191080735  Rate 7513.586179

hcids:/home/vanepp # ps auxwwww | grep argusroot      6775  7.5  2.0  83920 80672 pts/0    RL+  09:58  20:02 argus -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root      7155  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   14:25   0:00 grep argus
hcids:/home/vanepp # ps auxwwww | grep argus
root      6775  7.3  2.0  83920 80672 pts/0    SL+  09:58  25:29 argus -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root      7258  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   15:44   0:00 grep argus
hcids:/home/vanepp # !ps
ps auxwwww | grep argus
root      6775  7.1  2.0  83920 80672 pts/0    SL+  09:58  29:51 argus -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
root      7777  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   16:58   0:00 grep argus
hcids:/home/vanepp # kill -HUP 6775

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



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