[Oisf-devel] LuaJIT running out of memory causing Suricata crashes?

[Victor Julien]

On 12/04/2013 12:37 PM, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>> [32578] 4/12/2013 -- 11:18:50 - (detect-luajit.c:281) <Info> (DetectLuajitMatchBuffer) -- failed to run script: not enough memory
> I guess we could add more checks to the Lua scripts to avoid the
> zlib/xor errors, which occur all the time, but I think they're probably
> not significant. Is there a way we could prevent or at least debug the
> "not enough memory" errors which are presumably what causes Suricata to
> crash?

Maybe you can try inserting a "return 0" on line 282, so:

    int retval = lua_pcall(tluajit->luastate, 1, 1, 0);
    if (retval != 0) {
        SCLogInfo("failed to run script: %s",
lua_tostring(tluajit->luastate, -1));
        return 0;
    }

What kind of process exit code are you getting?

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