[Bro] bro crashes with memory error

[Seth Hall]

Hi Ludwig!

I think you're going to have to give more information.  A process table 
when the box is low on memory would be helpful.  Run this...

ps auwwxf | grep bro

   .Seth

On 12 Mar 2018, at 0:56, Ludwig Goon wrote:

> Running bro 2.5.3 on ubuntu 17.10. I have a 8Gb of memory on an intel 
> based
> platform.
>
> This is a single mode instance and I compiled 2.5.3 from scratch.
>
> I get the following when using broctl deploy
>
> src/central_freelist.cc:333] tcmalloc: allocation failed 16384
> src/central_freelist.cc:333] tcmalloc: allocation failed 8192
> out of memory in new.
> fatal error: out of memory in new.
>
> out of memory in new.
> fatal error: out of memory in new.
>
>
> If I run with pf_ring as the load balancer the manager crashes but bro
> processes will run until time to rotate files.
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