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Re: How to determine which detection search method to use?


From: Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:03:13 -0500

Yes, it uses a lot! I'm using...

config detection: search-method ac

and using 2.7GB of RAM and this network segment sees very little traffic.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Andy Berryman <aberryman () cymtec com> wrote:
How can you determine which search method you should use? Reason I'm asking
is right now I don't have one specified in my snort.conf so it's using the
default of "ac-bnfa"



But, if I specify "ac-std" I run out of memory in 15 seconds. This box has
2gb of memory and snort is the only thing running on it.



The standard "ac-bnfa" never seems to get above 10% when I run the "top"
command. So does the ac-std really use that much more memory?



Thanks,

Andy Berryman

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