RE: 2.1.3rc1 Performance

["Kreimendahl, Chad J" <Chad.Kreimendahl () umb com>]

I think the real question is... Is 0.8.3 really dropping packets?  If it
reports >100% drops, maybe it's not dropping at all and that counter is
related to something else that's misconfigured.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary_Portnoy () itginc com [mailto:Gary_Portnoy () itginc com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:44 PM
To: Kreimendahl, Chad J
Cc: Dirk Geschke; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] 2.1.3rc1 Performance

Chad, Dirk,

I kept recompiling and testing with different versions of libpcre and
libpcap.  And what do you know: Snort 2.1.3-RC1 with libpcre 4.5 and
libpcap 0.8.3 reports dropping tons of packets Snort 2.1.3-RC1 with
libpcre 4.5 and libpcap 0.7.2 reports dropping 0% of packets. I also
noticed that Flushes/sec has gone down by a factor of 2 with 0.7.2

My problem is solved (I think....). 
The question remains however, which version is misreporting statistics?
I 
suspect 0.8.3 since it reported 128.633% drop rate at one point.
Or is 0.8.3 just that much slower? 

Anyone care to comment?

-G
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Gary Portnoy




"Kreimendahl, Chad J" <Chad.Kreimendahl () umb com>
05/19/2004 12:55 PM

 
        To:     <Gary_Portnoy () itginc com>
        cc:     "Dirk Geschke" <Dirk_Geschke () genua de>, 
<snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
        Subject:        RE: [Snort-users] 2.1.3rc1 Performance


By the way... My tests were done with an older (not .8) version of
libpcap.  I'll attempt the new one in development very soon. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary_Portnoy () itginc com [mailto:Gary_Portnoy () itginc com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:46 AM
To: Kreimendahl, Chad J
Cc: Dirk Geschke; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] 2.1.3rc1 Performance

Heh.... And here I am running on a Sun Ultra-2, with dual processors,
qfe 
card,  and 1GB of Ram.  I thought snort was keeping up, but apparently 
just barely.  The maximum throughput i am seeing is about 5.5Mbps and 3k

pkts/sec

-g-
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Gary Portnoy






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