radium fails (rc.50 from 2007-08-31)

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Sun Sep 2 14:24:41 EDT 2007


> 	Hmmm, I just checked the threads version that I butchered to avoid a 
> deadlock in shutdown and it is using an amazingly small amount of memory
> (although on a different link so this may be a traffic type issue, I guess I 
> should start a non thread version and see what happens :-)):
> 
> ps auxwwwww | grep argus
> root     25148 12.2  0.4  19816 16112 ?        SL   Sep01 107:00 argus -P 560 -i eth2 -i eth3 -U 512 -m -D2 -F /spare/argus.conf
> vanepp   26736  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   11:03   0:00 grep argus
> 
> perhaps after poking a bit more at the threads version I'll move it to the
> Intenet link (where it is it won't see most of the port scans that sweep
> through which may be the difference). 
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

	And just discovered that threads weren't in fact enabled so memory 
usage is oddly low although it seems to have been giving output. Enabling
threads just now is doing more what I'd expect (we will see if that includes
being able to shutdown without deadlocking :-)):

 sniffer1:/spare # ps auxwwww | grep argus
root     29352 14.5  0.5  90268 20504 pts/1    SLl  11:20   0:22 argus -P 560 -i eth2 -i eth3 -U 512 -m -D2 -F /spare/argus.conf
root     29361  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   11:23   0:00 grep argus

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



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