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Archive => 21.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: walkerx on January 15, 2022, 11:55:34 am
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I installed Maltrail and noticed after about 3 days it stops working and recording information. At first I thought it might be down to the connection dropping but this is not the case.
I've tried stopping and restarting the sensor and server, but it then takes a while for it to start again
Is there a way to get this to stop both sensors and server every night and restart it
update: found can restart sensor through cron, is there any point on restarting the server as well if it on the same machine?
thanks
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Only sensor will stop working, no need to cycle server
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When I was running it I had similar issues and had to "kick" the service regularly to keep it working. Be aware that the current Maltrail package is very buggy. There is a huge memory leak that, if left unchecked, will use all the available ram and all swap space in just few days. Because of that I stopped using it.
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Thanks
I've set them both to restart on a daily basis, so will monitor and see how it performs
swap is currently at about 40% use been reporting now for nearly 6 days
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> Be aware that the current Maltrail package is very buggy
That's a misleading representation of the issue at hand. Sure, the end result is similar to what is being described but the leak is in a python library used, which is unmaintained.
Cheers,
Franco
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I already added a PR to FreeBSD ports with a memory-friendly implementation but currently no volunteer to pick it up