[Oisf-devel] Mem leaks

[Anoop Saldanha]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Martin Holste <mcholste at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Coming to the memory usage, ac changes might be the reason behind the
>> mem increase(not a leak).  I have changed all u16 buffers to u32 and
>> so on.  The usage increase might look bigger when ac-full is used,
>> although with ac-single it should be pretty okay.  Btw you should see
>> much better perf(around 15%-20%).  How big's your ruleset btw?
>
> That would explain it--that's a lot of additional memory.  Running
> with ac-full is such a performance improvement that we can't live
> without it (good thing we've got a lot of ram).  The ruleset is about


> 7k rules.  Which commit should I see 15-20% improvement with?
>

d6f9e06bbbfbe186ec35bb10c3720fa941b4e28d


> I've now been seeing a very strange phenomenon in which low traffic
> periods actually lead to missed heartbeats.  Very bizarre!  The sensor
> performs well during peak load (around 700 Mb/sec), but when the load
> drops at night to more like 250 Mb/sec, it starts missing a lot of
> alerts.  I've never seen anything like it, but it's been going on for
> a few nights now.  This is with commit 58d7cb.
>


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Anoop Saldanha