[Aide] AIDE memory leak [Re: AIDE performance problems]

[Paul Hessels]

Okay, so I don't have enough memory to run an aide init.  The machine has
12G of memory and its running against 2.5TB and about 20 million files.

Over the 12 hour period it comes very close to finishing but doesn't make
it.  Here is an process listing and memory stats right before it died.

root     13396 58.7 97.3 12047724 12003268 pts/1 D  Apr09 536:49
/usr/bin/aide --config /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated --init
root     13651  0.0  0.0   7832   868 pts/1    S+   13:11   0:00 grep autog

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         12045      11928        116          0          3         61
-/+ buffers/cache:      11862        182
Swap:            0          0          0

Here is the memory graph from munin
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5i1jdtxa4922j18/Screenshot%202015-04-10%2013.38.09.png?dl=0

Is this a memory leak? Or is there a legit reason to be using 12G of memory
to scan this number or size of files?

Is this the wrong email list for this?

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Paul Hessels <paul at hessels.ca> wrote:

> Thank you Hannes, I will give it a try.  It takes a long time to run my
> tests of course.
>
> With the old version I think I am encountering a memory leak, eventually
> the aide process is using at 12G of ram and the machine dies.  Hopefully
> the new version doesn't have this problem.
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Hannes von Haugwitz <
> hannes at vonhaugwitz.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 01:30:18PM -0400, Paul Hessels wrote:
>> > Its from debian wheezy:
>> >
>> > # aide --version
>> > Aide 0.15.1
>>
>> Last night I uploaded the version of Debian jessie
>> (0.16~a2.git20130520-3) to wheezy-backports. Please give this version a
>> try. It might perform a bit better.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Hannes
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