[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#641647: aide: Aide consumes all memory and swap

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: aide
Version: 0.15.1-2+squeeze1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


Aide's daily run consumes all available and memory and swap.  This renders the system unusable until you are able to get enough of a shell to kill aide.  This is with a default install except that I had to initialize by hand (didn't get asked about initializing during install).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aide depends on:
ii  aide-common        0.15.1-2+squeeze1     Advanced Intrusion Detection Envir
ii  bsd-mailx          8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii  liblockfile1       1.08-4                NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii  ucf                3.0025+nmu1           Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages aide recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon

aide suggests no packages.

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