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

Brandon Ganem brandonganem+oisf at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 15:07:09 UTC 2012


Correct, although it will still log one or two files per minute some times.
At start up it logs 7k-10k files a minute for about 3-5 minutes, gradually
reducing the number of files logged until it hits 1-2 a minute, sometimes
none for a large span of time.

My apologies if i'm not describing this well.

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brandon,
>
> Ok. I am not sure what is the issue? -
> From what I understood - it logs md5s for a period of time and then
> stops , do i understand correct?
>
> thank you
>
> On 6/9/2012 6:05 PM, Brandon Ganem wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > #output module to log files tracked in a easily parsable json format
> > - file-log:
> > enabled: yes
> > filename: files-json.log
> > append: yes
> > #filetype: regular # 'regular', 'unix_stream' or 'unix_dgram'
> > force-magic: yes # force logging magic on all logged files
> > force-md5: yes # force logging of md5 checksums
> >
> > *do you use md5 sigs?*
> > No. I pretty much followed the setup from here:
> > https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/MD5
> > The very bottom heading. I do have file store enabled in case there is a
> > situation where I want to start plucking specific files off the wire.
> Could
> > that be causing the issue?
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>>> http://www.inliniac.net/
> >>>> PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc
> >>>> ---------------------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Peter Manev
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter Manev
>
>
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