Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: High repcli memory utilization in Mac

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

• Repcli using several GB of memory over time
• Sensor logs show long running repcli processes over multiple days

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: 3.6.1 and Above
• macOS: 10.16 and Above

Cause

Long repcli processes are failing to stop, resulting in a memory leak - DSEN-16606

Resolution

• This will be fixed in the 3.7.1 sensor
• Workaround: Restart the endpoint to clear memory