[Oisf-devel] suricata memory consumption not follow down after http test stoped.

[Peter Manev]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Delta Yeh <delta.yeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I update suricata source to git HEAD.
>  I  build suricata in a Debian lenny virtual machine( 1GRAM , two
> core 2.1G CPU) with
>    1. autogen.sh
>     2. ./configure
>     3. make && make install
>
>  The suricata.yaml is the default .
> I use ./suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth0  to start suricata.
>
> I run apache ab( ab -c 1 -n 60000   http://192.168.1.123/) to test
> suricata(a simple nginx welcome page).
> During the test, I can see the memory suricata consumed grown up.
> When 60000 request finished, in the top output,the suricata process
> mem is 45.2%.
> 5 minutes later, the mem is STILL 45.2%, only CPU change from 45% to 4%.
>
> I then start another 60000 http request test with ab, the memory
> suricata consumed INCREASED!!
>
> It this a memory leakage?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> debian:~/suricata/oisf# uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed May 12 21:56:10 UTC 2010 i686
> GNU/Linux
> debian:~/suricata/oisf# src/.libs/suricata  --build-info
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:633) <Info> (main) -- This
> is Suricata version 1.1beta2 (rev e131814)
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:516) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- Features: LIBPCAP_VERSION_MAJOR=0 LIBCAP_NG
> LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:530) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- 32-bits, Little-endian architecture
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:532) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- GCC version 4.3.2, C version 199901
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:538) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_1
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:541) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_2
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:544) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4
> [26298] 13/9/2011 -- 20:38:10 - (suricata.c:547) <Info>
> (SCPrintBuildInfo) -- __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_8
>
> top output:
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 26081 root      20   0 1129m 540m 1860 S 47.2 53.2   5:27.69 suricata
> 26284 root      20   0 12832 3208 2164 R  8.6  0.3   0:13.54 ab
>
> BR,
>  DeltaY
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Hi Delta,
After the second stress test - did the memory consumption from Suricata
stayed at the same level or decreased again after some time (like 5 min
after the 2nd test was over)?

Thanks


-- 
Peter Manev
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