Snort and memory

[Marcin Zurakowski <marcin () interfirma pl>]

I've run snort on local network(ethernet - 10Mb/s and 2Mb/s gateway to
internet). When I run 'top' I get:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU states: 15.6% user,  3.3% system,  0.0% nice, 80.9% idle
Mem:   160824K av,  158496K used,    2328K free,   27992K shrd,    3944K
buff
Swap:  128516K av,   59144K used,   69372K free                    9708K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
28156 snort     19   0  170M 113M   968 R       0 16.6 72.4 264:03 snort
31665 root       4   0   868  868   672 R       0  1.9  0.5   0:26 top
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Is it normal that snort consumed 170MB memory??????????

Configuration:
- Pentium MMX 166MHz
- 160MB memory
- 128 MB swap
- network adapter: 3COM 905C
- RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.19 with openwall patch
- snort 1.8.1-RELEASE
- standart configuration from whitehats, internal network: class C

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Marcin Zurakowski

InterFirma Administrator


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