Re: Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

computational_complex-forthespam () yahoo it wrote:
> Hi people!
> I'm writing a sniffer with libpcap 0.9.3 that gets
> packets and makes some cpu-intensive work with those.
> I want to use a multi process architecture (rather
> than a multi thread one) because i want to distribute
> work on multiple processor; so i thought two way to do
> this:

Do you really have to do the cpu intensive work on those packets in real time?

Why don't you want to use threads to distribute work across the CPUs?

Specifically, on _which_ platform do you want to do this?

rick jones
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