Pfsense 2.2 Speed
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Gentlemen:
Will a package such as Snort run faster on Pfsense 2.2 given it is based on BSD 10? In general will Pfsense 2.2 run quicker on an Xeon processor?
I understand Pfsense 2.2 will run on multiple cores. Any discussion will be appreciated.
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Generally speaking, everything should be faster, but specifically for snort or other areas it's more difficult to say without proper testing to confirm.
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Gentlemen:
Will a package such as Snort run faster on Pfsense 2.2 given it is based on BSD 10? In general will Pfsense 2.2 run quicker on an Xeon processor?
I understand Pfsense 2.2 will run on multiple cores. Any discussion will be appreciated.well on my atom D525 it is shutdown and startup 2x faster then 2.1.5 based on old 8.3-p16 or something pXX…so even on atom is supa fast compared to the old one in boot up & shutting down. snort is running same speeds i still has not much scales from 2+2 hyper threaded cores...but xeon giving you much more raw power & scaling ofc.
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The big speed advantage with 2.2 you're going to see is the multi-core capable pf in FreeBSD 10.
I think that the maintainer of the Snort and Sucuricata packages mentioned he was working on making them scale better across many cores though.
Edit: Can't find where I read that now though. ::)Steve
