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improve efficiency of Suricata processing uploaded PCAP files #457

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mmguero opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 0 comments
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improve efficiency of Suricata processing uploaded PCAP files #457

mmguero opened this issue Nov 5, 2024 · 0 comments
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performance Related to speed/performance suricata Relating to Malcolm's use of Suricata upload Relating to PCAP and/or Zeek log ingestion
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mmguero commented Nov 5, 2024

@mmguero cloned issue idaholab/Malcolm#325 on 2024-01-08:

Currently as uploaded PCAP files are processed, each PCAP file results in a new suricata process for that PCAP file.

This is the same behavior for Zeek and Arkime capture; however, suricata seems to have more overhead (I often notice that suricata is still running on a batch of uploaded PCAP files long after the others are done).

I came across this thread describing using suricata socket control to send PCAP files to a single long-running suricata process, then output each eve.json to a different directory per-PCAP. This would be an improvement.

@mmguero mmguero added performance Related to speed/performance suricata Relating to Malcolm's use of Suricata upload Relating to PCAP and/or Zeek log ingestion labels Nov 5, 2024
@mmguero mmguero added this to Malcolm Nov 5, 2024
@mmguero mmguero moved this to In Progress in Malcolm Nov 5, 2024
@mmguero mmguero added this to the v24.11.0 milestone Nov 5, 2024
@mmguero mmguero modified the milestones: v24.11.0, v24.12.0 Nov 5, 2024
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