Re: does snort support multi-core machines?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

It's single threaded, however you can flow pin the traffic amongst several CPUs by using taskset to pin Snort to each 
CPU and then using a DAQ like PF_RING to load balance the traffic between the instances.

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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

On May 8, 2012, at 4:50 AM, 闫振宇 wrote:

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> Does snort support multi-core machines? or is it single-threaded ?
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> 2012-05-08
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