Re: suricata 6.0.0 / 6.0.1 - cpu load (idle) rising compared to 5.0.4

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

> On 12 Dec 2020, at 02:18, Kienker, Fred <fkienker(a)at4b.com> wrote:
> 
> Matthas:
> 
> I worked through some of the examples of the settings described in the 
> Suricata forum discussion. If my observations is correct, the issue 
> centers around the flow manager. A change to it has made a big 
> difference it the resource usage by this process. Its likely going to 
> come down to live with the load created the v6 version or revert to v5 
> and wait for them to get to the bottom of this. No combination of 
> settings in the flow section of suricata.yaml ever seemed to reduce it 
> and instead increased it.

Good research.

> I don't use low power systems for IPFire and dont have access to one 
> but others with these systems may want to take a look at their 
> performance numbers and report back as to whether they can live with the 
> higher load.

It is not directly low-power systems.

I launched this on AWS today and the CPU load is immediately at 25%. It was mentioned on the linked thread that virtual systems are affected more.

I would now rather lean towards reverting suricata 6 unless there is a hot fix available soon.

Best,
-Michael

> 
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> Fred
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> 
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 6:34 PM
> To: Kienker, Fred; michael.tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>; 
> stefan.schantl <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org>
> Cc: development <development(a)lists.ipfire.org>
> Subject: Re: suricata 6.0.0 / 6.0.1 - cpu load (idle) rising compared to 
> 5.0.4
> 
> Hi,
> 
> looks as if there is something going on in the suricata forum regarding 
> cpu load:
> 
> => https://forum.suricata.io/t/cpu-usage-of-version-6-0-0/706
> 
> I can't really interpret the numrous screenshots and ongoing 
> discussions, but could it be that this is related to what I'm 
> experiencing when upgrading from 5.0.x to 6.0.x?
> 
> Best,
> Matthias
> 
>