Alfredo,
At first I was using a slightly different config because I was utilizing 16 
threads instead of 8, but when I turned off hyper threading i went back to 
using the exact same config.
PF_RING with the DNA DAQ, 8 queues, identical traffic, right now in the summer 
with no students on campus we are only seeing a few hundred Mbps so the older 
box is at 10ish % CPU utilization while the new box is at 100%.

Is there any config you would like to see specifically? 

Thank you!
-Scott


On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:19 PM, "Alfredo Cardigliano" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Scott
> are you using the same configuration on the two boxes? could you provide more 
> details about configuration?
> 
> Best Regards
> Alfredo
> 
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Scott Finlon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, both MSI-X and PCIE v3 are supported.
>> I disabled HT because that is one of the only differences between the two
>> boxes, the old machine has two E5-2609's which aren't HT capable, and the
>> new machine has two E5-2660's which are.
>> 
>> Scott Finlon, CISSP GCIA
>> -----------------------------------
>> Information Security Engineer
>> The University of Scranton
>> email : [email protected]
>> phone : 570-941-6168
>> -----------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/17/13 3:20 PM, "Ritter, Nicholas" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Does the new box support MSI-X and/or PCIe v3? I would think that
>>> disabling HT (as in HyperThreading) would be the last thing you would
>>> want to do.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:52 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Ntop-misc] PF_RING / DNA + Snort
>>> 
>>> I am in the process of moving Snort from an older box to a new box. Both
>>> are RHEL 6 x64, both with the same NICs.
>>> I am using PF_RING/DNA to split traffic across CPU cores on the box, and
>>> can verify using pf_count_multichanel that traffic is being split the way
>>> it should be.
>>> 
>>> I compiled Snort on the new box fresh, but copied the configs over. The
>>> old box CPU is currently sitting around 10%, the new box has the cores
>>> pegged at 99-100%.
>>> 
>>> I disabled HT on the new box, but the CPU is still maxed.
>>> 
>>> This looks like more of a Snort issue, not so much PF_RING, but I asked
>>> over there and they aren't sure what might be the cause. Anyone have any
>>> other ideas of what might be causing this to happen?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scott Finlon, CISSP GCIA
>>> -----------------------------------
>>> Information Security Engineer
>>> The University of Scranton
>>> email : [email protected]
>>> phone : 570-941-6168
>>> -----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
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