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

Aaron Lewis the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 23:25:34 PDT 2015


Linux, CentOS 6.3

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Aashish Sharma <init.conf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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