Suricata
  • 1. What is Suricata
  • 2. Quickstart guide
  • 3. Installation
  • 4. Upgrading
  • 5. Security Considerations
  • 6. Support Status
  • 7. Command Line Options
  • 8. Suricata Rules
  • 9. Rule Management
  • 10. Making sense out of Alerts
  • 11. Performance
    • 11.1. Runmodes
    • 11.2. Packet Capture
    • 11.3. Tuning Considerations
    • 11.4. Hyperscan
    • 11.5. High Performance Configuration
    • 11.6. Statistics
    • 11.7. Ignoring Traffic
    • 11.8. Packet Profiling
    • 11.9. Rule Profiling
    • 11.10. Tcmalloc
    • 11.11. Performance Analysis
  • 12. Configuration
  • 13. Reputation
  • 14. Init Scripts
  • 15. Output
  • 16. Lua support
  • 17. File Extraction
  • 18. Public Datasets (PCAPs)
  • 19. Using Capture Hardware
  • 20. Interacting via Unix Socket
  • 21. Plugins
  • 22. IPS Mode
  • 23. Firewall Mode
  • 24. 3rd Party Integration
  • 25. Man Pages
  • 26. Acknowledgements
  • 27. Licenses
  • 28. Suricata Developer Guide
  • 29. Verifying Suricata Source Distribution Files
  • 30. Appendix
  • 31. Known Issues
Suricata
  • 11. Performance
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11. Performance

  • 11.1. Runmodes
    • 11.1.1. Different runmodes
    • 11.1.2. Load balancing
  • 11.2. Packet Capture
    • 11.2.1. Load balancing
    • 11.2.2. RSS
    • 11.2.3. Offloading
    • 11.2.4. Recommendations
  • 11.3. Tuning Considerations
    • 11.3.1. max-pending-packets: <number>
    • 11.3.2. mpm-algo: <ac|hs|ac-ks>
    • 11.3.3. detect.profile: <low|medium|high|custom>
    • 11.3.4. detect.sgh-mpm-context: <auto|single|full>
    • 11.3.5. af-packet
    • 11.3.6. ring-size
    • 11.3.7. stream.bypass
  • 11.4. Hyperscan
    • 11.4.1. Introduction
    • 11.4.2. Basic Installation (Package)
    • 11.4.3. Advanced Installation (Source)
    • 11.4.4. Using Hyperscan
    • 11.4.5. Hyperscan caching
  • 11.5. High Performance Configuration
    • 11.5.1. NIC
    • 11.5.2. CPU affinity and NUMA
      • 11.5.2.1. Intel based systems
      • 11.5.2.2. AMD based systems
      • 11.5.2.3. Other considerations
  • 11.6. Statistics
    • 11.6.1. stats.log file
      • 11.6.1.1. Detecting packet loss
    • 11.6.2. Kernel drops
    • 11.6.3. Tools to plot graphs
  • 11.7. Ignoring Traffic
    • 11.7.1. Capture Filters (BPF)
      • 11.7.1.1. BPF and IPS
    • 11.7.2. pass rules
    • 11.7.3. suppress
    • 11.7.4. Encrypted Traffic
    • 11.7.5. Bypassing Traffic
  • 11.8. Packet Profiling
  • 11.9. Rule Profiling
  • 11.10. Tcmalloc
    • 11.10.1. Installation
    • 11.10.2. Usage
  • 11.11. Performance Analysis
    • 11.11.1. System Load
    • 11.11.2. Logfiles
    • 11.11.3. Suricata Load
    • 11.11.4. Traffic
      • 11.11.4.1. Basics
      • 11.11.4.2. Advanced
      • 11.11.4.3. Elephant Flows
    • 11.11.5. Rules
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