Re: Snort memory swap usage

[Todd Wease <twease () sourcefire com>]

Zakai Kinan wrote:
> Is snort unable to use swap?  I have a server with 4GB
> of ram and 10GB of swap.  This morning snort crashes
> with the error: "ACSM-No Memory: acsmCompile!".  I was
> able to fix it by changing the memory configuration.  
>
> TIA,
>
> Zk

Snort ultimately makes calls to malloc or calloc for dynamic memory
requests.  If these return NULL, according to the man pages, there is no
memory to be had.

Todd

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