[Pkg-aide-maintainers] lenny+aide: feedback

Marc Haber mh+pkg-aide-maintainers at zugschlus.de
Sun Aug 30 12:55:08 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:37:54PM +0200, julien wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote on 24/04/09 22:25:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:20:12PM +0200, julien wrote:
> >> * more annoying, Aide seems a lot more slower than before: it tooks
> >> at least a whole day to initialize with default setup. same if i
> >> switch to md5 checksum only and the box is a Virtual Machine with
> >> 8GB disk half-empty.
> > 
> > I guess that the virtualisation solution doesn't handle the disk 
> > accesses too well. On real machines, aide hasn't slowed down since
> > etch.
> 
> that's what i supposed, but that was not the case with etch ...
> 
> > 
> >> i killed process after 1 or 2 days.
> > 
> > Do you still have the database fragment that was written when you 
> > killed the process?
> 
> 
> i try again with this
> 
> # begin=`date`;time /usr/bin/aide.wrapper -i; echo "time $begin -> "`date`
> [...]
> real    650m58.908s
> user    169m3.210s
> sys     104m51.629s
> time samedi 25 avril 2009, 06:40:42 (UTC+0200) -> samedi 25 avril 2009,
> 17:31:41 (UTC+0200)
> 
> what's strange about file size is the result is 10B only ... but during
> aide processing it goes up to 128KB.
> 
> (after init)
> $ ls -lh /var/lib/aide/
> total 1,7M
> -rw------- 1 root root  75K avr 26 06:25 aide.conf.autogenerated
> -rw------- 1 root root   10 avr 13 09:44 aide.db
> -rw------- 1 root root   10 avr 13 09:43 aide.db.20090413
> -rw------- 1 root root   10 avr 26 06:25 aide.db.new
> -rw------- 1 root root   10 avr 25 06:25 aide.db.new.t1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,7M avr 21 11:06 magic.mgc
> 
> $ sudo hexdump /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
> 0000000 8b1f 0008 0000 0000 0302
> 000000a
> 
> and it's only md5 as checksum ...

Can you strace the "running" process and find out what exactly it is
doing? Please open a bug against the package to keep me on the issue.

Greetings
Marc

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