[8.910][BUG] Webadmin excessively bloated

I know that with all the new changes to webadmin some sacrifices will have to be made to the memory footprint but this is kind of excessive. I have a 2GB vmware instance running and after the update and starting snort, I am already swapping about 170Mb ram. What I have noticed is that there is a new process called asg.plx introduced in this version and whenever webadmin is launched, it takes up about 150megs of ram. I don't have anything new enabled for this version like hotspot etc. so the usage has increased for some other reason compared to previous versions. This added to the cssd daemon adds up to be almost 300megs increase in baseline compared to v8.3x

There are other threads about wwwrun cpu usage and I am sure it will be optimized but the memory footprint of webadmin is getting very large at this point. I hate to cry over memory usage all the time but something has to be optimized somewhere.


gatekeeper:/var/log # ps aux |grep wwwrun

wwwrun    4327  0.0  0.0   8320  1732 ?        S    12:46   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    7920  0.9  2.8  74268 59548 ?        S    13:15   0:06 /var/webadmin/index.plx

wwwrun    7954  0.4  2.1  54768 44656 ?        S    13:15   0:03 /var/webadmin/asg.plx

wwwrun    7955  0.5  2.1  54768 44792 ?        S    13:15   0:03 /var/webadmin/asg.plx

wwwrun    7957  0.5  2.1  54768 43944 ?        S    13:15   0:03 /var/webadmin/asg.plx

wwwrun    8229  0.2  1.0  36256 22284 ?        S    13:17   0:01 /var/jape/index.plx

wwwrun    8286  0.0  0.1   9360  3600 ?        S    13:19   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    8324  1.2  2.3  60468 48092 ?        S    13:21   0:04 /var/webadmin/index.plx

wwwrun    8325  1.3  2.3  60688 48268 ?        S    13:21   0:04 /var/webadmin/index.plx

wwwrun    8326  0.9  2.1  55988 43808 ?        S    13:21   0:03 /var/webadmin/index.plx

wwwrun    8395  0.0  0.1   9368  3504 ?        S    13:22   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

root      8633  0.0  0.0   2168   472 pts/0    D+   13:26   0:00 grep wwwrun

Regards
Bill

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0 William Warren over 13 years ago

yeah this also means the 2 gig appliances are going to be struggling as they are now under 8.3.

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0 Billybob over 13 years ago in reply to William Warren

yeah this also means the 2 gig appliances are going to be struggling as they are now under 8.3.

The ram acts a little different in hardware appliance compared to a virtual one but you are right. I only have about half the IPS rules enabled but I have local cff database running and I am still swapping with uptime of less than a day and swappiness at zero. If you do major webadmin work with multiple admins at the same time, I bet that ram usage would be even higher.

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Edit: Here is the output of ps from one of our ASGs at work (v8.31)before webadmin launch

authority:/home/login # ps aux |grep wwwrun

wwwrun    8535  0.0  0.0   6800   956 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    8553  0.0  0.0   6864   972 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

root     29329  0.0  0.0   3476   760 pts/0    S+   10:49   0:00 grep wwwrun

and after launching webadmin

authority:/home/login # ps aux |grep wwwrun

wwwrun    8535  0.0  0.0   6800  1360 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    8553  0.0  0.1   7796  3800 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun   29490  0.2  0.1   7880  3928 ?        S    10:49   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun   29491  9.7  2.9  63980 61956 ?        S    10:49   0:08 /var/webadmin/index.plx

root     29651  0.0  0.0   3476   756 pts/0    S+   10:51   0:00 grep wwwrun

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0 Billybob over 13 years ago in reply to William Warren

yeah this also means the 2 gig appliances are going to be struggling as they are now under 8.3.

authority:/home/login # ps aux |grep wwwrun

wwwrun    8535  0.0  0.0   6800   956 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    8553  0.0  0.0   6864   972 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

root     29329  0.0  0.0   3476   760 pts/0    S+   10:49   0:00 grep wwwrun

and after launching webadmin

authority:/home/login # ps aux |grep wwwrun

wwwrun    8535  0.0  0.0   6800  1360 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun    8553  0.0  0.1   7796  3800 ?        S    08:27   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun   29490  0.2  0.1   7880  3928 ?        S    10:49   0:00 /bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

wwwrun   29491  9.7  2.9  63980 61956 ?        S    10:49   0:08 /var/webadmin/index.plx

root     29651  0.0  0.0   3476   756 pts/0    S+   10:51   0:00 grep wwwrun

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