<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Would be beneficial to ask vendor what they do.</div><div><br>On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:27 AM, Brian Hennigar <<a href="mailto:bhennigar@gmail.com">bhennigar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">It's an IBM system X server. Suricata is running in IDS mode and a mix of 10G Fibre and 1G copper for the SPANs. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Peter Manev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petermanev@gmail.com" target="_blank">petermanev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Brian Hennigar <<a href="mailto:bhennigar@gmail.com">bhennigar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> In my server BIOS, there's an option called 'Workload Configuration' with<br>
> two options - Balanced and I/O Sensitive.<br>
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</span>What server is this and what is your target setup/environment?<br>
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> The description is:<br>
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> "Select this choice to determine how to balance between I/O bandwidth and<br>
> balanced workload. Choosing I/O sensitive will get higher I/O bandwidth when<br>
> expansion cards are used. Choosing Balanced will allow enough frequency for<br>
> the workload while the microprocessor cores are idle."<br>
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> Does anyone know if Suricata would benefit from having the I/O Sensitive<br>
> option enabled?<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
> Brian<br>
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