[Oisf-users] Suricata using 35% cpu with no load?

Duane Howard duane.security at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 20:57:52 UTC 2015


* 50.66%  libpthread-2.15.so <http://libpthread-2.15.so>  [.]
pthread_mutex_trylock
                                                  *
* 37.69%  libpthread-2.15.so <http://libpthread-2.15.so>  [.]
pthread_mutex_unlock           *

  8.93%  suricata            [.] 0xccae2


  1.42%  suricata            [.] pthread_mutex_trylock at plt


  1.30%  suricata            [.] pthread_mutex_unlock at plt

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Duane Howard <duane.security at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is Suricata version 2.0.8 RELEASE
> Features: PCAP_SET_BUFF LIBPCAP_VERSION_MAJOR=1 PF_RING AF_PACKET
> HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK
> SIMD support: none
> Atomic intrisics: 1 2 4 8 byte(s)
> 64-bits, Little-endian architecture
> GCC version 4.6.3, C version 199901
> compiled with -fstack-protector
> compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
> compiled with LibHTP v0.5.17, linked against LibHTP v0.5.17
> Suricata Configuration:
>   AF_PACKET support:                       yes
>   PF_RING support:                         yes
>   NFQueue support:                         no
>   NFLOG support:                           no
>   IPFW support:                            no
>   DAG enabled:                             no
>   Napatech enabled:                        no
>   Unix socket enabled:                     no
>   Detection enabled:                       yes
>
>   libnss support:                          no
>   libnspr support:                         no
>   libjansson support:                      no
>   Prelude support:                         no
>   PCRE jit:                                no
>   LUA support:                             no
>   libluajit:                               no
>   libgeoip:                                yes
>   Non-bundled htp:                         yes
>   Old barnyard2 support:                   no
>   CUDA enabled:                            no
>
>   Suricatasc install:                      yes
>
>   Unit tests enabled:                      no
>   Debug output enabled:                    no
>   Debug validation enabled:                no
>   Profiling enabled:                       no
>   Profiling locks enabled:                 no
>   Coccinelle / spatch:                     no
>
> Generic build parameters:
>   Installation prefix (--prefix):          /usr
>   Configuration directory (--sysconfdir):  /etc/suricata/
>   Log directory (--localstatedir) :        /var/log/suricata/
>
>   Host:                                    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>   GCC binary:                              gcc
>   GCC Protect enabled:                     no
>   GCC march native enabled:                no
>   GCC Profile enabled:                     no
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 30 jul 2015, at 20:58, Duane Howard <duane.security at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When closing suri it reports 0 packets for the interface I'm mainly
>> concerned with. There's also nothing in fast or other logs to indicate
>> traffic.
>>
>> 30/7/2015 -- 19:58:41 - <Notice> - Stats for 'bond0':  pkts: 0, drop: 0
>> (-nan%), invalid chksum: 0
>>
>>
>> What is the output of suricata --build-info ?
>>
>> If you have perf tools installed have a look at what in Suricata uses the
>> most CPU -
>> perf top -p pidofsuri
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Alan Wanderley dos Santos <
>> alan.santos at rnp.br> wrote:
>>
>>> Didi you see the fast.log and others logs?
>>>
>>> Maybe there are some traffic (icmp or broadcast for example) coming to
>>> virtual machine, even little being data, can generated a lot of logs and
>>> degree the performance.
>>>
>>> I had a similar situation on a VM of testing.
>>>
>>> Just a shot into darkness rsrs
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> Alan Santos
>>> Analista de Segurança
>>> Centro de Atendimento a Incidentes de Segurança (CAIS)
>>> Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP)
>>> (19) 3787-3314 | alan.santos at rnp.br
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *De: *"Duane Howard" <duane.security at gmail.com>
>>> *Para: *"oisf-users" <oisf-users at openinfosecfoundation.org>
>>> *Enviadas: *Quinta-feira, 30 de julho de 2015 16:50:51
>>> *Assunto: *[Oisf-users] Suricata using 35% cpu with no load?
>>>
>>> I've got a random virtual testing machine, and I'm seeing Suricata
>>> sitting at about 35% CPU load, even though there's absolutely no traffic
>>> heading to it at the moment. Is there an easy way to get Suricata to tell
>>> me what it's doing that would cause this? It occurs on real interfaces with
>>> low traffic, loopback, as well as bonds where there's no trafic.
>>> ./d
>>>
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