[Discussion] The general rule of thumb for current Suricata hardware requirements

[Jason Chambers]

Please disregard this thread; I just found what I was looking for.

http://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-users/2012-January/001205.html

and

http://ossectools.blogspot.com/2011/04/network-intrusion-detection-systems.html



Regards,

--Jason


On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Jason Chambers
<jchambers.mlists at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For those running Suricata in production: what level of performance are
> you seeing in relation to traffic volume and analysis complexity ?  I'm
> trying to estimate hardware requirements and when to scale, i.e., how much
> traffic can a single 32-core server with 64GB RAM process ?   Assume
> PF_RING DNA.
>
> I think current performance will only improve, especially when adding
> GPUs, but that is likely to be a while.
>
> Something like http://seclists.org/snort/2011/q3/411 would be helpful.
>
> Comments welcome on or off-list.
>
> Regards,
>
> --Jason
>
>
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