[Bro] out of memory after a couple days?

Seth Hall seth at icir.org
Wed Dec 4 20:31:51 PST 2013


On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:34 PM, Mike Patterson <mike.patterson at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> I think you’re definitely running into a memory leak. I’ve had 2.2 processes try to grab up to 100GB of RAM. 8 workers, 96GB of RAM, but the box splits time with another 8 snort workers. My late 2.1 release (september 21 IIRC) was quite a bit more stable.


I think there is some particular traffic that you guys are running into that's causing it.  A few other people have encountered that too but we haven't been able to nail down what it is yet.

  .Seth

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