Re: Multiple snorts on its own cpu core?

["Chan, Wilson" <wchan () honolulu gov>]

What does this do?  "schedtool -M 2 -p 10 $PID" Is this really needed? 

> From some quick reading it seems that using "schedtool -a 0x01 $PID" should do the trick for locking the snort pid to 
> cpu1. 

==Schedtool man parameters==
-M policy
    for manual/raw mode; policy is the number of the scheduling policy (see above for 0-4). This option is mostly for 
kernel guys that want to test their new implementations. 
-p prio
    specify static priority required for SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR. Usually ranged from 1-99.


Wilson Chan

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Bjarte Fjellskål [mailto:edward.fjellskal () redpill-linpro com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:59 PM
To: Chan, Wilson
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Multiple snorts on its own cpu core?

Chan, Wilson wrote:
> How do you run each instance of snort on its own CPU core? I have a
> server that has 8 cores and vaguely remember someone on the list
> mentioning it was possible to run snort on its own core. Thanks!

Hi Chan Wilson,
A basic way of doing this, is shown here (Linux):

----8<----
#!/bin/bash
PIDFILE="/var/run/snort_eth1.pid"

if [ -r $PIDFILE  ] && [ -s $PIDFILE ];then
    PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
    schedtool $PID
    schedtool -a 0x01 $PID
    schedtool -M 2 -p 10 $PID
    schedtool $PID
else
    echo "No pid file, or empty pidfile! - exit!"
fi
----8<----

Depending on your multi-setup, you should add some logic to
check for which snort instance you run, and pin that to a
different cpu 0x02 etc...

Read up on schedtool... there are some other tools that
you also can use for doing the same.

I also wrote this in my recent blogpost:
http://www.gamelinux.org/?p=81

But ill add the details shown here :)

Regards,
ebf0

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