Re: Wireshark 64bit on multicore CPU's

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:29 AM,  <Christian.Calonder () swisscom com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are evaluating a new trace server for analyzing 10GBit/s traffic and I
> would like
>
> to know if Wireshark supports multicore CPU's. If no, we don't need to order
> a
>
> multicore CPU for this server.

While WireShark runs on multi-core CPUs, it does not distribute the
important work, AFAIK, among separate cores.

In my experience, the things that improve Wireshark performance are:

1. Memory. 64GB or more.
2. Using SSDs or NVMe.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)
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