Snort speed limit?

["Sheahan, Paul" <Paul.Sheahan () priceline com>]

I have a Snort sensor on a Gigabit network. Is there a theoretical speed
limit at which Snort can no longer keep up? For example, the wire can
handle gigabit but say our traffic level is half of that. Is there a
theoretical limit to what Snort can handle assuming the beefiest
hardware?

 

Thanks