Re: Second Snort instance killing performance

[Murali Raju <protocoljunkie () gmail com>]

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On 9/12/05, snort sara <snortster () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need t show a demonstratoin of snort by showing some kinds of intrusuins 
> that snort alerts on, do any one has a good testing tools to test snort?
>
> any reply will be appreciated.
>
>
> On 9/7/05, Paul Melson <pmelson () gmail com> wrote:
> > I've just run into an interesting situation with one of my Snort 
> > sensors.
> > I've added another interface attached to a new span port to my existing
> > sensor box and I want to run a second Snort process for that interface. 
> > Same binary, same logs, but different config file and rule set for each
> > process. If either the original process monitoring eth1 or the new 
> > process
> > monitoring eth2 are running, the load average is about 0.3-0.4. If both 
> > processes run simultaneously, load jumps to 2.0+ and performance 
> > suffers,
> > packets drop, etc.
> >
> > The server is a Proliant G4 running RHEL4 with dual Xeon 3GHz CPUs, 2GB 
> > RAM,
> > Ultra320 disks, etc. so it shouldn't be choking on this relatively small 
> >
> > amount of traffic. Snort version is Version 2.3.2 (Build 12).
> >
> > Anybody run into anything like this before? The problem seems to be
> > specific to running two Snort processes, but I'm not sure where to
> > troubleshoot next. 
> >
> > PaulM
> >
> >
> >
> >
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