[Oisf-users] multicore http requests logging

[Peter Manev]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Michał D <michu162 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently I use "--disable-detection" when I'm running suricata and I sill
> have problems with high CPU usage of only two cores and packet drops in
> peaks.

Try af-packet and see if any diff.

>
> 2016-09-27 9:56 GMT+02:00 Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Michał D <michu162 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I would like to use suricata only to log incoming http requests and save
>> > them as json into file (http.json).
>>
>> If this is the only thing you need to do  - log http request only - no
>> inspection, no alerts.
>> You can try the nsm mode (./configure --disable-detection .....) and
>> enable only http logs in the eve-log section of suricata.yaml.
>>
>> > I have server with two 10G interfaces where I'm receiving mirrored
>> > traffic,
>> > 48GB of RAM and Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 2.53GHz with 16 cores
>> > Configuration of suricata and build-info you can find here:
>> > http://pastebin.com/CriMdqJP
>> >
>> > Currently it works in PCAP mode, but I can see 100% usage only of 2 CPU
>> > cores and a lot of drops.
>> > (/usr/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml --disable-detection
>> > --pidfile /var/run/suricata.pid --pcap=p2p1 --pcap=p2p2 -D -vvv -F
>> > /etc/suricata/bpf_filter.txt)
>> >
>> > How should I configure & run suricata to have no drops and use all
>> > cores?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Michal
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Manev
>
>



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Regards,
Peter Manev