Re: How to reduce the binary size of snort?

[Leon Ward <seclists () rm-rf co uk>]

What's your device?

-Leon

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:23 AM, S U B A <jv.suri () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi ,
>       I`m trying to fit snort in our device and we have some space
> constrains with this. Thats why I wanted to know why the current snort size
> is very large, previously i used snort_inline 2.6 version which of size 1.7
> Mb. I wanted to know why the current version is so huge when compared to
> older versions.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Suresh Babu
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:39 AM, S U B A<jv.suri () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >              Currently snort binary size after compilation is 8652 Kb
> > (FC9
> > > and 2.6.25.11 kernel), after stripping it is 6488 Kb. How to reduce the
> > size
> > > of the snort binary?
> > > The parser.c is of 268 Kb and why the parser.o is of size 5824 Kb?? I
> > think
> > > because of this parser.o the snort binary size is very large.
> > > Can anyone give some suggestions on how to reduce the size of snort
> > binary?
> >
> > Why do you want to do this? Why do you believe it is too large? What
> > is it that you, who is "new to snort", are trying to do?
> >
> > --
> > Nigel Houghton
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> >
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