From a07e6fe1a2d1b8945d8a84abf3022061c9cc4528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Sergey G. Brester" <serg.brester@sebres.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:19:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] reduce default `maxmatches` from 50 to 5: avoid too large
 memory consumption if `maxretry` is large and many failures don't cause ban
 (but accumulated in fail-manager with all the matched lines); closes gh-2843

---
 fail2ban/server/failmanager.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fail2ban/server/failmanager.py b/fail2ban/server/failmanager.py
index 3e81e8b5..4173a233 100644
--- a/fail2ban/server/failmanager.py
+++ b/fail2ban/server/failmanager.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class FailManager:
 		self.__maxRetry = 3
 		self.__maxTime = 600
 		self.__failTotal = 0
-		self.maxMatches = 50
+		self.maxMatches = 5
 		self.__bgSvc = BgService()
 	
 	def setFailTotal(self, value):