[Aide] aide 0.11 is generating a VERY large database.

Marc Haber mh+aide at zugschlus.de
Sun Dec 3 23:24:12 EET 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:38:06AM +1300, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > That's why I suggested to exclude some parts of the filesystem while
> > you're testing.
> Exclusion would be done how - temporarily moving some of the
> \d+_ailde_.* files to a different directory?

No, adding a new file that is processed early.

Start aide, tail -f the new database, see where it spends a lot of
time in the first, say, two minutes, try to exclude that directory,
try again.

> > My "slowest" system takes like 30 minutes for the aide check.
> Heh.  My server is a 11 year old IBM PC 330 with dual PPro 200s

With huge disks, I suppose. My slowest box is like 300 MHz, single CPU.

Greetings
Marc

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