[Oisf-users] Suricata Myricom and 10Gbit

Peter Manev petermanev at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 09:18:46 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Michał Purzyński
<michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>                      SNF recv pkts:            328287934
>                 SNF drop ring full:                    0
>
> OK. So. The data ring size is for all wokers, i.e. if I allocate 10GB than I
> need just 10GB of physical memory. What made me think otherwise are tools
> like top, htop, free -m. They actually show num_workers x data_ring_size =
> crazy amount of memory I don't have. But because all workers map the same
> physical memory it does not matter, because all I need is just a virtual
> memory to handle the mapping and that's it.
>
> Sending around 3.5Gbit/sec now (in peak, goes down to 2Gbit/sec) and myricom
> says that suricata takes all the packets. Will debug the Suricata
> performance later tomorrow, it's 2AM :-)
>
>


you should also  try
  - sgh-mpm-context: full


Some info from the stats.log would be useful as well for troubleshooting?

-- 
Regards,
Peter Manev



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