Re: Pin snort single processor

[Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>]

OK so there is no affect on tracking frags, state, or anything else
that might adversely affect detection. It is just a performance
recommendation for folks using more than one instance of Snort?

Thx,
Wally

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:47 AM, JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com> wrote:
> 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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