On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Chris Wakelin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've got 32GB, but it's a 3.2.0 kernel (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit). I tried
> 
> insmod ixgbe.ko RSS=1,1 FdirPballoc=3,3 mtu=1522 num_rx_slots=2048
> num_tx_slots=0

Ok, I will check the same kernel version/driver options.

> 
> but it didn't seem to make any difference.
> 
> pf_ring is loaded with "transparent_mode=2 min_num_slots=4096"

These settings are ignored with DNA.

Alfredo

> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
> 
> On 08/10/12 12:35, Alfredo Cardigliano wrote:
>> Christ
>> How much memory do you have on this system?
>> On my system (kernel 2.6.36, 4Gb of RAM, ixgbe) it is working fine.
>> Please try decreasing the num_rx_slots (actually memory allocation happens 
>> at pfdnacluster_master boot, but it's worth giving it a try because it's 
>> possible you are running out of memory).
>> 
>> Regards
>> Alfredo
>> 
>> On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Chris Wakelin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Any ideas on this? Is this related to the 32768 num_rx_slots on ixgbe?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to get somewhere with this as with just 8 cores, I'm dropping
>>> packets.
>>> 
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> On 01/10/12 17:50, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I've got a strange problem when trying to increase the number of cores
>>>> used by my Suricata+Bro IDS(+ARGUS) setup. When I try to get Suricata to
>>>> use more than 8 devices, it fails on my Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0)
>>>> boxes. However on my Ubuntu 10.04 (kernel 2.6.32) box it seems OK.
>>>> 
>>>> Strangely, there's no problem running Suricata, using libpfring, on
>>>> dnacluster:1@0 .. 1@7 and Bro IDS, using lipcap,  on dnacluster:1@8 ..
>>>> 1@15 (with my custom pfdnacluster_master that duplicates traffic).
>>>> 
>>>> I can reproduce the problem with pfcount_aggregator (with "#define
>>>> MAX_NUM_DEVS 16" rather than 8):-
>>>> 
>>>>> pfdnacluster_master -i dna0 -c 1 -n 12
>>>> 
>>>>> pfcount_aggregator_cdw -i 
>>>>> dnacluster:1@0+dnacluster:1@1+dnacluster:1@2+dnacluster:1@3+dnacluster:1@4+dnacluster:1@5+dnacluster:1@6+dnacluster:1@7+dnacluster:1@8+dnacluster:1@9+dnacluster:1@10+dnacluster:1@11
>>>>>  -l 1522
>>>>> Using PF_RING v.5.4.5
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> Impossible to know the device address
>>>>> # Device RX channels: 1
>>>>> pfring_set_direction returned [rc=-7][direction=0]
>>>>> pfring_open error [Cannot allocate memory] (pf_ring not loaded or perhaps 
>>>>> you use quick mode and have already a socket bound to dnacluster:1@8 ?)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The 12.04 boxes have ixgbe devices loaded with "insmod ixgbe.ko RSS=1,1
>>>> FdirPballoc=3,3 mtu=1522".
>>>> 
>>>> The 10.04 box has e1000e (DNA demo license) loaded with just "insmod
>>>> e1000e".
>>>> 
>>>> Is this expected?
>>>> 
>>>> Best Wishes,
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>> 
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