So I just installed Suricata on one of our research computers with lots of cores available. I'm looking to see what kind of performance boost I get as I bump up the CPU's. After my first run I was surprised to see that I didn't get much of a boost when going from 8 to 32 CPUs. I was running a 6GB pcap file with a about 17k rules loaded. The first run on 8 cores took 190sec. The second run on 32 cores took 170 sec. Looks like something other than CPU is the bottle neck. <br>
<br>My first guess is Disk IO. Any recommendations on how I could check/verify that guess?<br><br>Gene<br><br>-- <br>Gene Albin<br><a href="mailto:gene.albin@gmail.com" target="_blank">gene.albin@gmail.com</a><br><br>