[Oisf-users] BIOS setting

Michał Purzyński michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 17:07:19 UTC 2017


Would be beneficial to ask vendor what they do.

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:27 AM, Brian Hennigar <bhennigar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's an IBM system X server. Suricata is running in IDS mode and a mix of 10G Fibre and 1G copper for the SPANs. 
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Brian Hennigar <bhennigar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In my server BIOS, there's an option called 'Workload Configuration' with
>> > two options - Balanced and I/O Sensitive.
>> >
>> 
>> What server is this and what is your target setup/environment?
>> 
>> > The description is:
>> >
>> > "Select this choice to determine how to balance between I/O bandwidth and
>> > balanced workload. Choosing I/O sensitive will get higher I/O bandwidth when
>> > expansion cards are used. Choosing Balanced will allow enough frequency for
>> > the workload while the microprocessor cores are idle."
>> >
>> >
>> > Does anyone know if Suricata would benefit from having the I/O Sensitive
>> > option enabled?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Brian
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Manev
> 
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