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Re: Snort and L2 Cache


From: Brian.Cook () chi frb org
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:06:39 -0500

Irwan,

I am using a dual 1.13 Ghz PIII with 2 Gig of memory sniffing off of a 
fibber card as dedicated sensors. The task on the processors is on 3%.

Brian N. Cook, CISSP
Information Security





Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi () phxby com>
Sent by: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
12/04/2003 02:26 AM

 
        To:     snort-users () lists sourceforge net
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        Subject:        [Snort-users] Snort and L2 Cache

I'm curious, for a new Snort box which one will be better?
Use dual processor, P IV Xeon with for example 2.8 Ghz and 512 KB L2
Cache, or single processor P IV Xeon with 3.06 Ghz but with 1 MB L2
Cache?
Does the size of L2 cache of the processor matters in speeding up Snort,
especially in monitoring gigabit Ethernet traffic?

Thanks


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