[Oisf-users] BIOS setting

[Peter Manev]

> On 7 Mar 2017, at 18:07, Michał Purzyński <michalpurzynski1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Would be beneficial to ask vendor what they do.

Totally agree - I think it is essential to know that.
What is  they enable/disable and the impact of it all. 

Also watch out of your NUMA/CPU/NIC relation and if any of those BIOS settings affect that in some way.

Thanks


> 
>> 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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