# bro crashes with memory error
**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-with-memory-error/5216
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [March 12, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-with-memory-error/5216 "2018-03-12T04:56:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ludwig\_Goon](https://community.zeek.org/u/Ludwig_Goon)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-with-memory-error/5216/1 "2018-03-12T04:56:11Z")
Running bro 2.5.3 on ubuntu 17.10. I have a 8Gb of memory on an intel based platform.
This is a single mode instance and I compiled 2.5.3 from scratch.
I get the following when using broctl deploy
src/central\_freelist.cc:333] tcmalloc: allocation failed 16384
src/central\_freelist.cc:333] tcmalloc: allocation failed 8192
out of memory in new.
fatal error: out of memory in new.
out of memory in new.
fatal error: out of memory in new.
If I run with pf\_ring as the load balancer the manager crashes but bro processes will run until time to rotate files.
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### Author:  [@seth](https://community.zeek.org/u/seth)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-with-memory-error/5216/2 "2018-03-15T21:50:06Z")
Hi Ludwig!
I think you're going to have to give more information. A process table when the box is low on memory would be helpful. Run this...
ps auwwxf | grep bro
.Seth
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-crashes-with-memory-error/5216/3 "2022-05-06T15:45:38Z")