Re: [mod-security-users] large resource.pag (16GB)

[Ryan B. <rya...@br...>]

On Friday 11 December 2009 03:49:05 am Stelio Gouveia wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I've had disk utilization hovering around 100%, after stracing apache i
>  found that is frequently opens resource.pag, this makes sense so far as i
>  make use of modsecurity and apache uses this as some sort of swap file.
> 
Did you create any custom rules that use the resource collection or is the 
only reference to it the initcol action at the end of the  
modsecurity_crs_10_global.conf file?

> But the file size is 16 GB, does this sound right?
> 
No, that is huge which makes me think that perhaps your rules are adding data 
to the resource file.

> Would i see apache performance degradation because of a large resource.pag?
> 
Perhaps yes.

-Ryan