Re: high packet loss - low throughput

[beenph <beenph () gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Michal Purzynski <michal () rsbac org> wrote:
> On 7/21/13 2:19 PM, beenph wrote:
> > Disable hyperthreading.
>
> Old and wrong advice from a pre Nehalem era.

As far as i know its still currently very debatable to enable hyperthreading
for system that require alot of context switching but i could be wrong :)


> > Balance your IRQ's so network irq are cpu bound.
>
> Done long time ago at restart, irqbalance removed from the system,

I was not refering to irqbalance process but i was rather refering to
assing your network card queue's
irq's to specific cpu core using smp_affinity. (/proc/irq/<IRQ ID>/smp_affinity)

> > bind each instance of snort to each cpu its listening network
> > interface is bound.
>
> Very bad idea, packet loss around 60% with it.

Very bad idea if the above suggestion is not done, correctly, else its
rather a good practice if you have
multiple input and output queue.

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