[Bro] Suggestions on handling 1Gb/s HTTP traffic?

Aashish Sharma init.conf at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 23:20:30 PDT 2015


Aaron, 

What OS are you  running Bro on ? 

Aashish 

> On Oct 25, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently tested bro 2.4.1 with ~1Gb/s HTTP traffic, it works but the
> processes die out of OOM within a few hours.
> 
> (The box has 16 cores and 64 GB memory, it should be enough right?)
> 
> Now I'm trying to resolve this matter, perhaps one of the following,
> 
> 1. Limit the volume of traffic that bro will process
> 2. Tune bro
> 
> Can someone please help?
> 
> And .. what's the maximum amount of traffic you guys ever tested?
> 
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