On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Michal Purzynski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-04-05 19:31, Alfredo Cardigliano wrote:
>> Hi Michal
>> could you try to reproduce this issue with latest pf_ring from svn?
> 
> Interesting, the box is running from half an hour with over 2.5Gbits of 
> traffic now, split between two interfaces (300Mbits+ and 2Gbits+). That's 
> around 300kpps.
> 
> If it works, I own you a beer :-)

:-) 
Let me know if the bug appears again.

> 
> BTW - with that level of traffic (and more to come, but I will have more 
> hardware as well) is my poor 16GB RAM enough?

pf_ring itself uses a constant amount of memory, you should ask the snort guys.

> 
> Also, what about CPU? I'm running it on 2 x E2620 @ 2.0Ghz with HT enabled.

Same as above, however I think it's good enough for your traffic.

Best Regards
Alfredo

> 
>> 
>> Thank you
>> Alfredo
>> 
>> On Apr 5, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Michal Purzynski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm building a full packet capture IDS setup, using Security Onion (hence 
>>> pf_ring).
>>> 
>>> Every time I start snort I get a long kernel stack trace and a kernel panic 
>>> - literally in seconds.
>>> 
>>> The full panic capture is here: http://pastebin.com/sgLMrr49
>>> 
>>> Details:
>>> 
>>> It's a HP 360 G8 server with dual CPUs (12 cores), HT enabled, 16 GB of RAM 
>>> running Ubuntu 12.04. The system is updated, kernel 3.2.0-39-generic.
>>> 
>>> pf_ring version 5.5.2
>>> 
>>> NICs - two Intel X520-1 (82599EB chipset).
>>> 
>>> Traffic (more or less) - eth4 250Mbit/sec, 50Kpps. eth5 2Gbit/sec and 
>>> 250Kpps.
>>> 
>>> The traffic is mirrored from a load balancers.
>>> 
>>> The same result is with distribution bundled drivers and hand build 3.14.5 
>>> loaded with LRO=0
>>> 
>>> Ethtool options are:
>>> 
>>> rx 4096
>>> 
>>> rx, tx, sg, tso, ufo, gso, lro - off
>>> 
>>> What's interesting -  I've once tried running the kernel as UP (nosmp 
>>> option during boot) and the system was stable (and crawling).
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