https://home.regit.org/tags/benchmark/ Recent content in Benchmark on To Linux and beyond ! Hugo fr Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:45:03 +0000 https://home.regit.org/2011/06/about-suricata-performance-boost-between-1-0-and-1-1beta2/ Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:45:03 +0000 https://home.regit.org/2011/06/about-suricata-performance-boost-between-1-0-and-1-1beta2/ <h2 id="discovering-the-performance-boost">Discovering the performance boost</h2> <p>When doing some coding on both 1.0 and 1.1 branch of <a href="http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/">suricata</a>, I’ve remarked that there was a huge performance improvement of the 1.1 branch over the 1.0 branch. The parsing of a given real-life pcap file was taking 200 seconds with 1.0 but only 30 seconds with 1.1. This performance boost was huge and I decide to double check and to study how such a performance boost was possible and how it was obtained:</p>