[Oisf-devel] [Discussion] Suricata 1.0.0 released

[Victor Julien]

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Could you paste here what Suricata says about CUDA at startup? Suricata
should list all cards that CUDA recognizes...

Cheers,
Victor

Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> I've got a bunch of spare Hybrid SLI stuff hanging around, where the mobo integrated GPU is completely idle, since there's a real GPU in place, and Nvidia abandoned the idea of Hybrid SLI. Has anyone thought of how to use that completely idle chip?
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discussion-bounces at openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:discussion-
>> bounces at openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Martin Holste
>> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:39 AM
>> To: Will Metcalf
>> Cc: Victor Julien; oisf-users at openinfosecfoundation.org; oisf-
>> devel at openinfosecfoundation.org; OISF Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Discussion] [Oisf-devel] Suricata 1.0.0 released
>>
>> Understood.  I just bought a new gaming rig at home, so now I have a
>> spare box with a GeForce 9800 GTX with 128 stream processors just
>> laying around.  I'll see if I can get it hooked up for testing and
>> I'll let you know how it goes.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Will Metcalf
>> <william.metcalf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Congrats!
>>> Thanks Martin!
>>>
>>>> Can you briefly describe the current state of the CUDA support?  Is
>> it
>>>> refined enough that performance is better when using CUDA?  I
>> believe
>>>> that in the early stages of development it was stated that non-CUDA
>>>> was still faster than using CUDA.  Also, has anyone tested it using
>>>> SLI?  This is really exciting stuff as the count of on-board stream
>>>> processors continues to grow by leaps and bounds on these video
>> cards
>>>> every month!
>>> To be honest we haven't done much more performance testing, but the
>>> packet batching code is now there i.e. sending multiple packets at
>>> once to the graphics card.  If you have the cycles take it for a spin
>>> and let us know ;-)..  We will be doing more testing/refining of this
>>> code but as of now it is still experimental.  Just to rehash to build
>>> with cuda support you simply...
>>>
>>> ./configure --enable-cuda
>>>
>>> edit the suricata.yaml file and set
>>>
>>> mpm-algo: b2g
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> mpm-algo: b2g_cuda
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> #max-pending-packets: 50
>>>
>>> to something like
>>>
>>> max-pending-packets: 7500
>>>
>>> This will cost you some ram btw ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
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