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Version

3.0.0

Installation Method

Other (please provide detail below)

Description

other (please provide detail below)

Installation Type

Standalone

Location

on-prem with Internet access

Hardware Specs

Exceeds minimum requirements

CPU

28

RAM

192GB

Storage for /

293GB

Storage for /nsm

10TB

Network Traffic Collection

span port

Network Traffic Speeds

1Gbps to 10Gbps

Status

Yes, all services on all nodes are running OK

Salt Status

No, there are no failures

Logs

No, there are no additional clues

Detail

Since I've upgraded from 2.4.211 to 3.0, it appears that Suricata isn't purging PCAP even after adjusting the max size. I'm sitting at 91%, which is well over what I have configured (70% of 10TB = 7K GB). The /nsm/suripcap directory is currently at 8TB in size.

Is there a way to force it?

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Did you recently change the amount of workers for suricata?

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@sjnhawk
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Not recently. I had adjusted them a while back while still on 2.4. Right now I am using 8 each for af-packet and zeek with 28 cores total on the server.

@sjnhawk
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Elasticsearch also has a fault now since nsm is filling up.

[2026-05-04T21:36:50,180][WARN ][org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.allocation.DiskThresholdMonitor] flood stage disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [1PU0Ofq6RUSVN6H4xvx2nQ][sjso][/usr/share/elasticsearch/data] free: 1tb[8.7%], all indices on this node will be marked read-only

@cm-ops
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You're running a standalone, you will want to keep some disk free for Elasticsearch data as well. You should probably back off your Suricata PCAP retention. All your functions, manager, search, and sensor are competing for disk space on /nsm.

@sjnhawk
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I had left plenty of space for Elasticsearch, it just seemed like the PCAP storage "broke through" the ceiling.

I took a risk and cleared out the suripcap directory and rebooted. So far everything seems to be fine.

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