[Oisf-users] Profiling options doesn't works in suricata-1.1rc1 ?

[Victor Julien]

On 11/09/2011 06:28 PM, carlopmart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I have configured profiling options in suricata.yaml config file:
> 
> profiling:
>    rules:
>       enabled: yes
>       filename: rule_perf.log
>       append: yes
>       sort: avgticks
>       limit: 100
> 
>    packets:
>       enabled: yes
>       filename: packet_stats.log
>       append: yes
>       csv:
>         enabled: no
>         filename: packet_stats.csv
> 
>   ... but neither rule_perf.log and packets_stats.log are created:
> 
> root at eorlingas:/nsm/sguil_sensor/idpesx02# ls -al
> total 124
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2011-11-09 17:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2011-11-08 22:01 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2011-11-09 17:13 dailylogs
> -rw-r----- 1 root root     0 2011-11-09 17:13 drop.log
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 69215 2011-11-09 17:26 http.log
> -rw-r----- 1 root root     0 2011-11-09 17:13 idpesx02.alerts
> -rw-r----- 1 root root     0 2011-11-09 17:13 suricata.out.1320858835
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33260 2011-11-09 17:25 suricata.stats
> 
>   Do I need to activate or reconfigure or recompile suricata with 
> another specific options??
> 
>   I have compiled with "--enable-nfqueue --disable-gccmarch-native" flags.
> 
> Thanks.

You need to pass --enable-profiling to configure. At the end of
configure it will tell you:

  Profiling enabled:        yes

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