Hello,

Adding linux-audit back to the reply.

On Monday, July 19, 2021 7:45:02 PM EDT you wrote:
> Audit version is 2.3.2(It's old I know, but can't change that),

This is so old that its virtually unsupported. It was released 8 years ago.

> and I don't have any valgrind output, I left the auditd service status on
> and saw memory utilisation after few days and Audisp-Plugin (.py file) was
> consuming alot of memory.
>
> I didn't try valgrind, would that be helpful in identifying the problem?

Yes, that is the standard goto tool for memory leaks. Although, its harder to 
diagnose when python is involved.
 
> And also can you share any patches on this in audit files or py files or in
> code related to audisp/auparse folders(in repo).

This is the history of the python bindings:
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/commits/master/bindings/
python/auparse_python.c

> As the next versions of audit doesn't have this issue, 

You mean 2.3.3?

> I'm sure that you can find some patch which deals with this issue.

Take a look through the history. One of them does it. I think one might even 
mention memory leak.

-Steve


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