RE: Low Snort performances

[Zphosis De Extrodinaire <zphosis () time net my>]

Hi,

I've been running snort on a customized SMP type FreeBSD kernel
on a SX based network interface. All I can say is that the performance is 
superb.
Doesnt consume much memory nor processor.

At 11:26 PM 4/19/2004, Richard Bejtlich wrote:
> Tod Beardsley wrote:
>
> I haven't seen many reports of Snort successfully
> running on *BSD with SMP. I don't follow the BSDs very
> closely, but I know SMP support fairly new (1 year?)
> in FreeBSD.... Googling... yep.
> http://www.freebsd.org/smp/. Well, that makes me
> happy.
>
> --
>
> FreeBSD has offered SMP in its RELEASEs since at least
> 3.0 in October 1998. [0]  Granted, it had problems.
>
> The August 2000 Daemon News issue explains why the SMP
> code needed to be revamped. [1]
>
> 5.0, released in January 2003, was the first to
> incorporate SMP code donated by BSD/OS. [2]  This new
> SMP implementation was called SMPng.
>
> I personally run Snort on FreeBSD 5.2.1 but haven't
> had to try SMP hardware yet.  I do operate a dual
> processor server for other functions running FreeBSD
> 4.9 STABLE.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard
> http://www.taosecurity.com
>
> [0] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/notes.html
> [1] http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200008/dadvocate.html
> [2]
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes-i386.html
>
>
>
>
>
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