Re: Snort 2.9.5.3 Now Available

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:34 PM, rmkml <rmkml () yahoo fr> wrote:

> Hi Snort Team,
>
> Congratulations for hard work !
>
> Do you have an idea for what performance improvements please ? 5% ? 10% ?
> more ?

Part of the performance investigation resulted in some code clean up that
didn't specifically result in significant performance improvement.
Overall, I think the changes yielded a few percent, but of course, YMMV.
It depends greatly on your configuration and traffic.

Regards
> @Rmkml
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Snort Releases wrote:
>
> > Snort 2.9.5.3 is now available on snort.org, at
> > http://www.snort.org/snort-downloads/ in the Latest Release section.
> >
> > 2013-07-30 - Snort 2.9.5.3
> >
> > [*] Improvements
> > * Performance improvements to eliminate some unnecessary work, reduction
> >   of sizes of data structures, and cleanup of processing for HTTP
> >   normalized buffers.
> >
> > * Cap the number of expected connections (eg FTP data channel) to
> >   prevent memory growth
> >
> > * Address issue with reloading reputation lookup tables when more
> >   addresses are added.
> >
> > * Address issue with potential hang during shutdown of control socket
> >   config reload processing thread.
> >
> > See the Release Notes and ChangeLog for more details.
> >
> > Please submit bugs, questions, and feedback to bugs () snort org.
> >
> > Happy Snorting!
> > The Snort Release Team
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