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

[David V Duccini]

We could try running aide against valgrind to see if there is a leak

-dvd

On Apr 10, 2015, at 12:40, Paul Hessels <paul at hessels.ca> wrote:

> 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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