Re: memcap maxed out

["Kurzawa, Kevin" <kkurzawa () co pinellas fl us>]

Did you ever get a response or an answer to this? I used to get these non-stop. My CPU was being taxed by the process 
though, averaging 80% utilization. Memory was only about 3GB out of 8GB though. So I always thought this was very odd.

Turns out after I went from an old HP ProLiant DL360 to a newer, but still old Cisco server (I don't have the model in 
front of me now), those messages disappeared. While the Cisco CPU is actually clocked slower, it only gets about 5% 
utilization. Go figure. I am told that it has to do with the CPU's Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) set being older on 
the HP (SSE2, I think). The newer SSE of the cisco (SSE3, I think) handles the same traffic from that tap (~20Mbps), 
plus traffic from another tap (~50Mbps) without batting an eye.


From: Sharif Uddin [mailto:Sharif.Uddin () spectrumasa com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:50 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] memcap maxed out

Hello

I have set stream5 as follows

preprocessor stream5_global: track_tcp yes, \
   track_udp yes, \
   track_icmp no, \
   memcap 1073741824, \
   max_tcp 262144, \
   max_udp 131072, \
   max_active_responses 2, \
   min_response_seconds 5
preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy windows, detect_anomalies, require_3whs 180, max_queued_segs 0, max_queued_bytes 0, \
   overlap_limit 10, small_segments 3 bytes 150, timeout 180, \


however I still get the following in logs. Is this normal?




Sep 16 15:45:00 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 137 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073734853/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:00 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 132 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073733155/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 156 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073728713/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 151 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073737880/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 147 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073739465/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 143 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073739742/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 138 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073739597/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 133 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073739179/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 128 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073739614/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 123 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1073740666/1073741824
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned session from cache that was using 30689490 bytes (memcap/check). 
172.16.0.200 54138 --> 172.16.0.22 445 (0) : LWstate 0x40 LWFlags 0x422101
Sep 16 15:45:01 snort snort[1670]: S5: Pruned 5 sessions from cache for memcap. 118 ssns remain.  memcap: 
1043016415/1073741824



Sharif Uddin
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