Low Performance

Packet Size (Bytes) Per-core nProbe™ Sustained Throughput with no Packet Loss
PF_RING ZC
Fixed 64 3.32 Mpps, 2.15 Gb/secs
Fixed 128 Wire Rate
Fixed 512
Random 64-1500

System Configuration

  • nProbe™ 7.2 Pro/Plugins (native PF_RING support)
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.10
  • PF_RING 6.1.X
  • Dell R220
  • CPU: Intel E5-1241 v3 @ 3.50GHz
  • Card: Intel 82599-based 10 Gigabit
  • Traffic Generator:
    pfsend -i zc:ethX -a -g 1 -b 250000
  • 250K Rotating IP Addresses
  • Generation of 250K flows/minute
  • Command used:
    nprobe -i zc:eth1 -cpu-affinity 1 -t 60 -b 1 -w 500000 -V 9
  • No Flow Storage on a database or disk - only forwarding to a collector.
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