Re: Snort use of memory

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 03:45 AM 11/2/2004, Alex Butcher, ISC/ISYS wrote:
> > Snort's not a cached and buffered system.
>
> It can be, if you link it against Phil Woods' libpcap 
> <http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/>, which improves performance of sniffing 
> applications such as Snort, by allocating user-definable ring buffers.

Good point. Although I'd view this as not increasing snort's usage per-se, 
it is a situation where you can allocate more memory to improve snort's 
performance. 



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