Comment 3 for bug 1029178

I am using percona-toolkit-2.2.6-1 on Centos 5 x86_64 - perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2

My command is '/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i lo -s0 -x -nn -q -tttt tcp port 3306 | /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report'

Getting a process list every 10 seconds shows:

root 18706 74.5 0.2 158780 27252 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:06 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 73.7 0.2 160352 28824 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:14 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 72.2 0.2 162572 31016 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:20 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 70.6 0.2 163460 31932 pts/1 S+ 12:12 0:27 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 72.2 0.2 165100 33572 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:35 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 71.0 0.2 166356 34820 pts/1 S+ 12:12 0:41 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 71.9 0.3 168468 36940 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:49 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 71.5 0.3 169652 38124 pts/1 R+ 12:12 0:57 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 72.2 0.3 171260 39732 pts/1 R+ 12:12 1:05 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report
root 18706 72.8 0.3 172996 41464 pts/1 R+ 12:12 1:12 perl /usr/bin/pt-query-digest --type=tcpdump --output slowlog --no-report

This continues until server runs out of memory