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

[Paul Hessels]

I am in no way a valgrind expert, but I have it running on a subset of
files with memcheck enabled. We'll see how it does.

Is it possible that 12G of ram is how much memory is required and this
isn't a memory leak?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:50 PM, David V Duccini <david at backpack.com> wrote:

>
> 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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