[Oisf-users] Suricata using 35% cpu with no load?
Duane Howard
duane.security at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 21:27:44 UTC 2015
strace only shows the process doing constant:
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
....
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Duane Howard <duane.security at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I can reproduce. I ran it on a single low volume real NIC with the same
> result. Nothing terribly interesting in suricata.log with -vv enabled:
> Here's the logs after rule and config loading:
>
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Core dump size set to unlimited.
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Unified2-alert initialized: filename
> suricata.u2, limit 128 MB
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Syslog output initialized
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Unable to find af-packet config for
> interface "eth0" or "default", using default value
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Going to use 1 thread(s)
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Enabling zero copy mode
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - RunModeIdsAFPWorkers initialised
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Notice> - all 1 packet processing threads, 3
> management threads initialized, engine started.
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Using interface 'eth0' via socket 7
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - All AFP capture threads are running.
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Thread AFPacketeth01 using socket 7
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:14:06 - <Info> - Starting to read on AFPacketeth01
> ^C30/7/2015 -- 21:15:27 - <Notice> - Signal Received. Stopping engine.
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:27 - <Info> - 0 new flows, 0 established flows were
> timed out, 0 flows in closed state
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - time elapsed 81.925s
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - (AFPacketeth01) Kernel: Packets 3372,
> dropped 0
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - (AFPacketeth01) Packets 3345, bytes
> 1318862
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - Stream TCP processed 2723 TCP packets
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - (AFPacketeth01) Alerts 0
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - Alert unified2 module wrote 0 alerts
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - host memory usage: 390144 bytes, maximum:
> 16777216
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Info> - cleaning up signature grouping
> structure... complete
> 30/7/2015 -- 21:15:28 - <Notice> - Stats for 'eth0': pkts: 3372, drop: 0
> (0.00%), invalid chksum: 0
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30 jul 2015, at 21:50, Duane Howard <duane.security at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can you reproduce this problem at will? Anything in verbose mode in
>> Suricata.log?
>>
>> Can you narrow it down to a relation of a single interface configuration
>> (as you mention in your initial mail)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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