argus memory issues

[Peter Van Epp]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:34:30AM +1200, Russell Fulton wrote:
> HI
> Is the lastest argus-3.0 supposed to resolve the memory issues?
> 
> 
> I have just put up
> argus-3.0.0.tar.gz
> <ftp://ftp.qosient.com/dev/argus-3.0/argus-3.0.0.tar.gz> 	386 KB
> 31/8/07 	9:38:00 AM
> 
> 
> and it is still using large amounts of memory:
> 
> 20549 argus     25   0  293M 293M   836 R     7.4 19.5   0:28   1 argus
> 20547 argus     25   0 73020  71M   820 R     5.5  4.7   0:27   1 argus
> 20551 argus     15   0  293M 293M   836 S     2.0 19.5   0:03   1 argus
> 20548 argus     15   0 73020  71M   820 S     1.1  4.7   0:03   1 argus
> 
> and this is after about 5 minutes running.
> 
> I recompiled without threads and started only one argus with the same
> results.
> 
> Russell
> 

	Hmmm, perhaps there is an endian issue then? Mine on a PPC machine (as
noted) with no .threads running on a link that has been peaking at about 100 
megs today is still using around 370 megs of memory:

vanepp at hcids:~> !ps
ps auxwwww | grep argus
root      9499  7.9  9.1 363976 360472 ?       SL   Sep03 107:11 argus -J -P 560 -i eth0 -i eth1 -U 512 -m -F /scratch/argus.conf
vanepp   11872  0.0  0.0   3132   832 pts/1    S+   19:34   0:00 grep argus

	This is the same link where earlier versions were getting up to 4 gigs
(the total memory in the machine). 
	When you send it a HUP it dumps memory stats to stdout. That may tell
Carter if there is something odd going on. Carter was also going to modify the
man record output to dump the same stats in the man records (although I don't
think thats done yet).

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