[Oisf-users] Couple of questions regarding stats.log

Peter Manev petermanev at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 07:09:51 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Brandon Ganem
<brandonganem+oisf at gmail.com>wrote:

> Changed, seems to have made a huge difference. Thank you!
>
> I'm not sure if this is related, but i've got suricata configured to md5
> all files coming across the wire.
>
how do you have that configured?


> At start-up it does ~ 7 to 10k a minute for just a few minutes then it
> tappers off until it gets to almost zero files hashed every minute. Alerts
> do not seem to be affected.
>
do you use md5 sigs?


>
> Sorry for bombarding the list with questions and thank you for the help.
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:
>
>> This may be caused by another option that is only mentioned in the
>> comment block above the stream settings in your yaml:
>>
>> #   max-sessions: 262144        # 256k concurrent sessions
>> #   prealloc-sessions: 32768    # 32k sessions prealloc'd
>>
>> Max sessions puts a limit to the max number of concurrent tcp sessions
>> tracked.
>>
>> Try setting it to something like:
>>
>> stream:
>>  max-sessions: 1000000
>>  prealloc-sessions: 500000
>>
>> Or something :)
>>
>> On 06/08/2012 07:24 PM, Brandon Ganem wrote:
>> > It looks like *tcp.ssn_memcap_drop       | Detect                    |
>> > 6019 *is starting to add up now too.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Brandon Ganem
>> > <brandonganem+oisf at gmail.com <mailto:brandonganem+oisf at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     /Up your memcap settings to 4GB each and see if the numbers improve.
>> >     Both memcap drop stats should be zero when everything's right. /
>> >     Done
>> >
>> >     /This is odd. Your stream related memcap is 1GB, yet this shows 6GB
>> in
>> >     use? Which again doesn't seem to match the memory usage you seem to
>> be
>> >     seeing for the whole process. Smells like a bug to me... /
>> >     /
>> >     /
>> >     Let me know if you want me to compile in some debugging features. If
>> >     I can provide any additional information let me know.
>> >
>> >     CPU / MEM: ~50-125% (similar to before) ~2-2.6GB(similar as well.)
>> >     Suricata has only been running for a few minutes, but here is a new
>> >     stats.log:
>> >
>> >     tcp.sessions              | Detect                    | 464890
>> >     *tcp.ssn_memcap_drop       | Detect                    | 0 (maybe
>> >     better, it may have to run for a while to start adding up though?)*
>> >     tcp.pseudo                | Detect                    | 10567
>> >     tcp.invalid_checksum      | Detect                    | 0
>> >     tcp.no_flow               | Detect                    | 0
>> >     tcp.reused_ssn            | Detect                    | 0
>> >     tcp.memuse                | Detect                    | 141604560
>> >     tcp.syn                   | Detect                    | 465555
>> >     tcp.synack                | Detect                    | 233829
>> >     tcp.rst                   | Detect                    | 46181
>> >     *tcp.segment_memcap_drop   | Detect                    | 1281114 (I
>> >     don't think this is impoving)*
>> >     *tcp.stream_depth_reached  | Detect                    | 70
>> >      (Looks like this is still going up*
>> >     tcp.reassembly_memuse     | Detect                    | 6442450806
>> >          *(still 6GB not 4GB)*
>> >     *tcp.reassembly_gap        | Detect                    | 44583
>> >     (Still going up)*
>> >     detect.alert              | Detect                    | 25
>> >     flow_mgr.closed_pruned    | FlowManagerThread         | 150973
>> >     flow_mgr.new_pruned       | FlowManagerThread         | 207334
>> >     flow_mgr.est_pruned       | FlowManagerThread         | 0
>> >     flow.memuse               | FlowManagerThread         | 41834880
>> >     flow.spare                | FlowManagerThread         | 10742
>> >     flow.emerg_mode_entered   | FlowManagerThread         | 0
>> >     flow.emerg_mode_over      | FlowManagerThread         | 0
>> >     decoder.pkts              | RxPFR1                    | 17310168
>> >     decoder.bytes             | RxPFR1                    | 7387022602
>> >     decoder.ipv4              | RxPFR1                    | 17309598
>> >     decoder.ipv6              | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.ethernet          | RxPFR1                    | 17310168
>> >     decoder.raw               | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.sll               | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.tcp               | RxPFR1                    | 15519823
>> >     decoder.udp               | RxPFR1                    | 210
>> >     decoder.sctp              | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.icmpv4            | RxPFR1                    | 1323
>> >     decoder.icmpv6            | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.ppp               | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.pppoe             | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.gre               | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.vlan              | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     decoder.avg_pkt_size      | RxPFR1                    | 427
>> >     decoder.max_pkt_size      | RxPFR1                    | 1516
>> >     defrag.ipv4.fragments     | RxPFR1                    | 15
>> >     defrag.ipv4.reassembled   | RxPFR1                    | 5
>> >     defrag.ipv4.timeouts      | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     defrag.ipv6.fragments     | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     defrag.ipv6.reassembled   | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >     defrag.ipv6.timeouts      | RxPFR1                    | 0
>> >
>> >
>> >     Here's what has been changed in the cfg:
>> >
>> >     flow:
>> >     *  memcap: 4gb*
>> >       hash-size: 65536
>> >       prealloc: 10000
>> >       emergency-recovery: 30
>> >       prune-flows: 5
>> >
>> >     stream:
>> >     *  memcap: 4gb*
>> >
>> >     On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net
>> >     <mailto:victor at inliniac.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         On 06/08/2012 05:59 PM, Brandon Ganem wrote:
>> >         > tcp.reassembly_memuse     | Detect                    |
>> 6442450854
>> >
>> >         This is odd. Your stream related memcap is 1GB, yet this shows
>> >         6GB in
>> >         use? Which again doesn't seem to match the memory usage you seem
>> >         to be
>> >         seeing for the whole process. Smells like a bug to me...
>> >
>> >         --
>> >         ---------------------------------------------
>> >         Victor Julien
>> >         http://www.inliniac.net/
>> >         PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc
>> >         ---------------------------------------------
>> >
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>> >
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Victor Julien
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>>
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Peter Manev
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