I have been experiencing a memory leak in ossec-csyslogd and ossec- dbd. I've reviewed a message on the list last Nov (thanks for the help Joe!) and tried to apply the patch by Daniel (https:// bitbucket.org/ddpbsd/ossec-hids/changeset/4b86abf62d5b) to address this. Didn't seem to work. I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed. Right now I have a crontab entry to restart OSSEC every 4 hours. Occasionally I get a level 12 alert from OSSEC about rule 5108 system running out of memory and that it killed a process.
System Info: CentOS 64bit, 4 GB RAM OSSEC 2.6 About 100 agents running 2.5.1 and 2.6 MySQL database About 1M events per hour Try #1 - Made manual changes to src/shared/read-alert.c in the original 2.6 source to free dstip. Copied newly compiled binaries into /var/ossec/bin/ directory. Different size binary, but no change in memory consumption. These progs all seem statically linked where a linked library with the memory leak isn't the cause of the problem, right? Try #2 - Downloaded latest snapshot dcid-ossec-hids-2f056a266d49 and compiled new binaries. Copied ossec-dbd and ossec-csyslogd binaries only into /var/ossec/bin directory. Still no change in memory consumption. Try #3 - Tried upgrade of OSSEC with the entire dcid-ossec- hids-2f056a266d49 source tree. The install worked, but no agents could communicate with the server. Even tried deleting an agent key and regenerating the key for the agent, clearing the queue/rids files, etc... but still no communication. So, I reloaded the original 2.6 binaries and config files. This might be a completely different issue. No weird messages on the server, but the client was giving a couple of errors. I'll leave this situation alone unless someone pings me. At this point I'm back on #2. For example, first thing in the morning, I'll take a look and those two programs are eating up all my RAM. I restart and it slowly builds back up. [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ date Fri Mar 2 09:23:11 EST 2012 [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ ps axuww|grep ossec ossecm 16615 21.7 26.3 1109516 1064544 ? S Mar01 197:43 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-dbd ossecm 16620 0.0 24.6 1002632 997144 ? S Mar01 0:18 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-csyslogd [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ sudo service ossec restart Stopping OSSEC: [ OK ] Starting OSSEC: [ OK ] [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ date Fri Mar 2 09:36:52 EST 2012 [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ ps axuww|grep ossec ossecm 22467 0.9 0.0 48000 3040 ? S 09:37 0:00 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-dbd ossecm 22472 0.0 0.0 6460 944 ? S 09:37 0:00 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-csyslogd [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ date Fri Mar 2 11:13:28 EST 2012 [steve.lodin@HqOssec01 ~]$ ps axuww|grep ossec ossecm 22467 2.0 3.3 178908 133972 ? S 09:37 1:57 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-dbd ossecm 22472 0.0 3.0 129268 123800 ? S 09:37 0:02 /var/ ossec/bin/ossec-csyslogd Thanks for any suggestions or help! Steve