[Bro] Memory Issue with Bro

[Azoff, Justin S]

>  
> [root at dellr620c skathare]#top
>  
> top - 22:48:06 up 70 days, 19:43,  5 users,  load average: 18.25, 13.49, 10.04
> Tasks:  17 total,   1 running,  16 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 31.5 us,  2.9 sy,  0.7 ni, 43.7 id, 21.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:  32900200 total, 32731868 used,   168332 free,      336 buffers
> KiB Swap:  1953076 total,  1262956 used,   690120 free.    14248 cached Mem
>  
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                  P
> 20504 root      20   0  404644  32724   1464 D   0.0  0.1   6:32.62 bro                                                     31
> 20552 root      20   0  404692  50108   1496 D  52.1  0.2   6:37.18 bro                                                     29
> 20564 root      20   0  404824  50960   1508 D  49.8  0.2   6:37.16 bro                                                     27
> 20574 root      20   0  404652  48748   1476 D  52.0  0.1   6:36.52 bro                                                     24
> 20567 root      20   0  404684  49948   1456 D   0.0  0.2   6:33.32 bro                                                     23
> 20561 root      20   0  421440  66672   1412 D  51.9  0.2   6:37.14 bro                                                     18
> 20569 root      20   0  404708  31904   1508 D  41.1  0.1   6:34.77 bro                                                     16
> 20495 root      20   0  404620  49936   1408 D  27.1  0.2   6:34.91 bro                                                     13
> 20515 root      20   0  404684  46324   1500 D  21.9  0.1   6:33.25 bro                                                     13
> 20548 root      20   0  404704  50188   1504 D  43.6  0.2   6:35.16 bro                                                     13
> 20474 root      20   0  404736  32704   1508 D   0.0  0.1   6:32.79 bro                                                     12
> 20502 root      20   0  404636  29300   1464 D  52.0  0.1   6:36.13 bro                                                     12
> 20539 root      20   0  404748  32784   1484 D  44.7  0.1   6:34.08 bro                                                     11
> 20537 root      20   0  404668  29284   1464 D   0.0  0.1   6:32.03 bro                                                      4
> 20559 root      20   0  404684  32644   1444 R  54.6  0.1   6:38.12 bro                                                      3
> 20542 root      20   0  404728  32704   1504 D  25.1  0.1   6:33.84 bro                                                      1
> 20289 root      20   0  196768    412    412 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.03 solar_clusterd                                           0
>  

Are those the only bro processes you are running?

the %MEM is only .1 or .2% for all of those process, and even if I round most of them up to .2% that only adds up to 3.2%

Can you press the M key in top to sort by memory usage?
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- Justin Azoff