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Re: [Snort-users] snort: FATAL ERROR: Unable to allocate memory!

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] snort: FATAL ERROR: Unable to allocate memory!
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:03:05 +0800
Alex Kirk wrote:


* dmesg for the boxes this is occuring on (perhaps they just simply don't have enough RAM to cope with what you're trying to do, there's a driver problem, etc.)

dmesg | more ..... i just add some more memory to the box...i also paste error message from /var/log/all.log (below).... if anybody know what is going wrong, pls let me know...
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OpenBSD 3.5 (GENERIC) #34: Mon Mar 29 12:24:55 MST 2004
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 449 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX
,FXSR,SSE
cpu0: disabling processor serial number
real mem = 402227200 (392800K)
avail mem = 366387200 (357800K)
using 4278 buffers containing 20213760 bytes (19740K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(b7) BIOS, date 05/19/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd7a0
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xfd7a0/0x860
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x4800 0xe0000/0x4000! 0xe4000/0xc000
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03
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* All the messages from /var/log/message surrounding this error (in case there are other things which are leading up to this problem)

tail from /var/log/all.log...snort only running about 30 minutes...
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Dec 20 09:54:56 ids1 snort: [1:553:7] POLICY FTP anonymous login attempt [Classification: Misc activity] [Priority: 3]: <fxp0> {TCP} 217.196.121.21:3117 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:21
Dec 20 09:55:56 ids1 snort: [1:2003:7] MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt [Classification: Misc Attack] [Priority: 2]: <fxp0> {UDP} 61.156.8.111:1240 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1434
Dec 20 09:55:56 ids1 snort: FATAL ERROR: Unable to allocate memory! (8193 requested)
Dec 20 10:00:01 ids1 cron[4705]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/newsyslog)
Dec 20 10:00:01 ids1 cron[6273]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q)
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I can't guarantee I can solve this, but I'd be happy to give it a shot.

Alex Kirk
Research Analyst
Sourcefire, Inc.

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