Re: Pin snort single processor

[JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com>]

Most typically for load distribution on a multi-core system.. So what I mean
by this: you have two cores and a big network with loads of traffic, use a
bpf and two snort instances (each pinned to a different core) to segment the
monitoring of this large and noisy network to two (or more) snort instances
and CPUs...

JJC

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>wrote:

> I remember seeing a conversation about pinning the snort process to a
> single CPU/core. Looking back I found the thread that talked about how
> to do this, but I could not find the conversation about _why_ this
> should be done.
>
> What is the actual undesired results of not pinning the process to a single
> CPU?
>
> Thx,
> Wally
>
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