[Oisf-devel] Query about Suricata behaviour difference on x86 and XLP

[Victor Julien]

On 07/17/2014 11:00 AM, Mahendra Ladhe wrote:
>   I compiled Suricata 2.0.2 on an x86 machine running 64-bit Ubuntu
> 12.04.4 LTS
> (The processor is Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E7400  @ 2.80GHz)
> Then I ran it on a 230 MB pcap file with following command line
> 
> $ sudo /usr/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata//suricata.yaml -r
> ./purplehaze.pcap
> 
> After a few seconds, it neatly exits after printing some log on the screen.
> 
> Next I cross compiled Suricata same version and ran it on XLP processor
> (multi-core multi-threaded MIPS processor: 4 CPU threads per core * 16
> cores = 64 CPU threads)
> using the same command line
> 
> $ suricata -r purplehaze.pcap -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml
> 
> It prints the following lines and gets stuck after that.
> 
> 2/6/1970 -- 10:42:14 - <Notice> - This is Suricata version 2.0.2 RELEASE
> 2/6/1970 -- 10:42:42 - <Warning> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED(225)]
> - Eve-log support not compiled in. Reconfigure/recompile with libjansson.
> 2/6/1970 -- 10:42:43 - <Notice> - all 97 packet processing threads, 3
> management threads initialized, engine started.
> 
> It simply doesn't quit.
> Am I missing something here ?
> Why are the behaviours different on x86 and XLP with everything else
> remaining the same ?

Can you attach to the process with gdb and do:

set logging on
thread apply all bt

Then send us the output file (gdb.txt)?

Also, can you attach the output of 'suricata --build-info'?

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