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Old 26th October 2010, 16:58
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Default Optimize your fail2ban memory use by 90%.
The solution turns out to be a one-liner on Debian Lenny

append the ulimit command to /etc/default/fail2ban file.

Add (to the file) on last line :

"ulimit -s 256"

Using this sets the default stack size for the Python instances running fail2ban to 256 KB and lowers the memory consumption of fail2ban approximately by a factor of 10.

I had 256mb use -> now less than 20.
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my memory usage for fail2ban went from 23980 blocks to 9412 using
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ps -aux |grep fail2ban
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Did not seem to work with me.
Service did not restart.
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Did not seem to work with me.
Service did not restart.
Is only a line in a file, there is nothing to fail.
I think maybe windows is better for you.


dont include the " ", maybe is that.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SamTzu
Did not seem to work with me.
Service did not restart.

Quote:
Is only a line in a file, there is nothing to fail.
I think maybe windows is better for you.
..or maybe your instructions were actually false or inaccurate?


Quote:
/etc/default/fail2ban: line 24: ulimit -s 256: command not found
Restarting authentication failure monitor: fail2ban.

It worked without the quotes. thx.
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" " are only used in strings with space.
In windows too.
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