[Oisf-users] What are capture.kernel_packets, capture.kernel_drops

[Cooper F. Nelson]

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These stats refer to packets processed/dropped by the kernel prior to
being passed to suricata for processing.  Packets will be dropped before
processing them, so indeed the drops can be higher.

If you are dropping lots of packets in kernel space, it means you are
either trying to processes too many packets per thread, or your kernel
packet buffers are too small.

- -Coop

On 10/8/2014 8:26 AM, Charles DeVoe wrote:
> in the stats file there are 2 values of
> interest, capture.kernel_packets, capture.kernel_drops.  
> 
> I believe that capture.kernel_packets would be the total number of
> packets for each thread,  capture.kernel_drops would be the number
> of capture.kernel_packets dropped.  Hence capture.kernel_packets should
> always be greater than capture.kernel_drops.  However, this does not
> appear to be the case.  We have many instances where the number
> of capture.kernel_packets is less than capture.kernel_drops.  Indicating
> we are dropping more packets than we receive.  
> 
> The question here is what are these two values and how are they derived?
> 
> 
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Cooper Nelson
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