[Bro] Memory leak?

Joe Blow blackhole.em at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 07:19:00 PDT 2014


Hey guys,

I'm trying to figure out if there is a memory leak in Bro that's causing me
issues.  I wonder if it's a memory leak because every few hours i'll have a
worker die like this:

<snip>

If you want to help us debug this problem, then please forward this mail to
reports at bro.org

Bro 2.3.1

Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64

==== No reporter.log

==== stderr.log

listening on bond1, capture length 8192 bytes

1411357505.663118 processing suspended

1411357505.663118 processing continued

1411392324.017784 received termination signal

1411392324.017784 105126164 packets received on interface bond1, 0 dropped

==== stdout.log

max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited

data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited

virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited

core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited

==== .cmdline

-i bond1 -U .status -p broctl -p broctl-live -p local -p worker-0-3
local.bro broctl base/frameworks/cluster local-worker.bro broctl/auto

 ==== .env_vars

PATH=/usr/local/bro/bin:/usr/local/bro/share/broctl/scripts:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

BROPATH=/usr/local/bro/spool/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/site::/usr/local/bro/spool/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/auto:/usr/local/bro/share/bro:/usr/local/bro/share/bro/policy:/usr/local/bro/share/bro/site

CLUSTER_NODE=worker-0-3

 ==== .status

TERMINATED [atexit]

 ==== No prof.log

 ==== No packet_filter.log

 ==== No loaded_scripts.log

--

[Automatically generated.]
</snip>

The picture of the system's memory looks like this:

[image: Inline image 1]

This sort of corresponds with the crashing of Bro.  Any ideas?  Where would
you guys start digging if the workers just started dying (seemingly)
randomly?

Cheers,

JB
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