Barnyard2 process and disk activity

[mhjackson123]

I am experiencing constant disk access and am not sure how to figure out what process is causing this.
The process that seems to be taking the most CPU is called Barnyard2. I can't seem to find out what this does.
Any insights would be much appreciated.

 

[WST16]

Hi,

A quick search for “Barnyard2 process” shows:

GitHub - firnsy/barnyard2: Barnyard2 is a dedicated spooler for Snort's unified2 binary output format.

Barnyard2 is a dedicated spooler for Snort's unified2 binary output format. - GitHub - firnsy/barnyard2: Barnyard2 is a dedicated spooler for Snort's unified2 binary output format.

github.com

(Read the description and the modes of operation).

And a search for “snort” shows:

Snort - Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention System

Snort is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.

www.snort.org

Did you install this intrusion detection software?

 

[mhjackson123]

Thank you so much for that. I installed the Intrusion Prevention package from synology. I stopped it and that removed Barnyard2 from the list and reduced CPU use by quite a bit. I guess the question is do I need intrusion prevention...