From: Sam Evans (samneuroflux.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 15:29:57 CDT

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Unfortunately, we are having to migrate our platform away from FreeBSD
to Linux due to some constraints we are running into. Long story, not a
happy ending. But, I'll do some searching on your suggested topic.

Thanks for the response!

-Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Edin Dizdarevic [mailto:edin.dizdarevicinterActive-Systems.de]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:08 PM
To: Sam Evans
Cc: snort
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Optimizing Linux Kernel for Snort

Sam Evans wrote:
> Greetings All, and Happy Fourth of July to all the US Readers out
there.
> :)
>
> I've got a question regarding optimizing a Linux 2.4.18 Kernel to get
> the best performance for snort. Does anyone have any tips?

Yeah, use OpenBSD ;)

just kidding, but don't forget this

<*> Packet socket
[*] Packet socket: mmapped IO

See the postings with topics like "Snort dropping packets..."

and using A LOT of memory is the best thing to do.

Have fun,

Edin

>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>

--
Edin Dizdarevic

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