Snort CPU consumptions

[Balasubramaniam Natarajan <bala150985 () gmail com>]

Hi

Let us consider a snort signature with a CPU expensive PCRE match as show
below[1].

Would the PCRE consume a lot of CPU cycles if the entire traffic which this
snort saw is just port 80 to the HOME_NET ?

[1]
alert tcp any any -> $HOME_NET 888 (msg:"Most CPU expensive PCRE";
pcre:"/.+/i"; rev:1; sid:100001)

My answer would be no ?  Is there any other contradicting answer to the
same ?  My doubt is due to the fact that I saw a peculiar case where the
traffic was not on port 888 and still this sort of a rule managed to bubble
up the worst performers in pref-profiling.

-- 
Regards,
Balasubramaniam Natarajan
www.blog.etutorshop.com

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