memory use, bidirectional behavior

[Peter Van Epp]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:16:57PM -0700, MN wrote:
> 
> A few data points that might possibly help with the memory leaks and
> which also show a strange behavior regarding CPU utilization as well:
> 
> I've been testing Argus on some new donated boxes with 10G cards (266MHz
> PCI-X buses, x86/32bit), but with only 1G interfaces currently in use.
> The two directions of the currently tapped link show up on eth0 and eth1.
> 
<snip>

	This seems odd! Which argus are us using 
/dev/argus-3.0/argus-3.0.0.tar.gz or 
/dev/argus-3.0/argus-3.0.0.smallmemory.rc.2

with /dev/argus-3.0/argus-3.0.0.smallmemory.rc.2 on an IBM quad core Power5
64 bit PPC box with dual Intel gig nics argus-3.0.0.smallmemory.rc.2 and 
SUSE 10.2 with the pf-ring kernel mods installed has been running fine since 
last night on dual interfaces (as Carter noted the -U flag and I think -J
for jitter aren't implemented yet) and apparantly putting out good data.

root     23980  5.1  5.3 278904 211660 ?       SLl  Aug23  54:06 argus -JR -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
vanepp   25602  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/0    S+   13:36   0:00 grep argus


top - 13:42:31 up 2 days,  5:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.08
Tasks:  78 total,   1 running,  77 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.8%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  1.8%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3936076k total,  1502456k used,  2433620k free,   408036k buffers
Swap:  6202496k total,        0k used,  6202496k free,   361340k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
23980 root      15   0  304m 206m 1424 S    7  5.4  54:33.90 argus              
25605 vanepp    15   0  2720 1188  948 R    0  0.0   0:00.01 top                

	I was seeing bad things on argus-3.0.0 before this but the two
smallmemory releases seem to have fixed the bloat. 

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