Re: Certin ET rulesets and 100 percent usage.

[Matt Jonkman <jonkman () jonkmans com>]

Straight IP matching is something Snort doesn't do well. Unfortunately.
So this isn't that unexpected.

I'd only run those rulesets where you can afford the cycles. or run a
second snort for these alone and turn off everything in it's config to
streamline some.

Matt

jlay () slave-tothe-box net wrote:
> So here's something interesting.  Enabling ANY of the below rulesets
> results in snort using 100% CPU:
>
> emerging-botcc.rules
> emerging-compromised.rules
> emerging-drop.rules
> emerging-dshield.rules
> emerging-rbn.rules
> emerging-tor.rules
>
> Without snort uses around 49%.  Using 2.8.4.1 with about 700K average
> traffic.  Any thoughts?  Thanks.
>
> James
>
>
>
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