[Bro] Dropped data

[Michał Purzyński]

What kind of cards and distribution do you have? Maybe you could just switch to afpacket to avoid the problem entirely 

> On May 8, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Johanna Amann <johanna at icir.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this actually does not look very bad to me - on most interfaces you do not
> seem to have any drops. One of them has a bit over 2% which is not that
> pretty but also not catastrophic.
> 
> I have no experience with ZC, but generally packet loss can be caused by a
> number of issues. Single high-speed connections can be problematic
> (because they add to the normal load of a single Bro process). Microbursts
> also happen and can lead to a bit of packet loss.
> 
> If there is a setting to increase the available buffer, that might be
> worth playing around with.
> 
> Johanna
> 
>> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:13:07PM -0400, Carl Rotenan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Can someone give me some direction on trying to figure out why I have
>> dropped data?
>> 
>> This output is from a machine getting about 3G of traffic a minute or so
>> into starting Bro 2.5.3 with PF_RING 7.0.0.
>> 
>> How much data per worker should I expect to budget for? Ideally I'd like
>> Bro to be able to do 10G of traffic.
>> 
>> Has anyone used PF_RING ZC with success?
>> 
>> worker-0-1: 1525291681.760081 recvd=564836 dropped=0 link=564836
>> worker-0-2: 1525291681.961074 recvd=723187 dropped=0 link=723187
>> worker-0-3: 1525291682.162178 recvd=682598 dropped=4619 link=682598
>> worker-0-4: 1525291682.364202 recvd=1094776 dropped=0 link=1094776
>> worker-0-5: 1525291682.566055 recvd=6722748 dropped=30902 link=6722748
>> worker-0-6: 1525291682.768050 recvd=2180528 dropped=0 link=2180528
>> worker-0-7: 1525291682.969023 recvd=3252824 dropped=0 link=3252824
>> worker-0-8: 1525291683.179065 recvd=414112 dropped=0 link=414112
>> worker-0-9: 1525291683.379083 recvd=2228892 dropped=52543 link=2228892
>> worker-0-10: 1525291683.579973 recvd=1735298 dropped=0 link=1735298
>> worker-0-11: 1525291683.780260 recvd=2720785 dropped=1437 link=2720785
>> worker-0-12: 1525291683.981421 recvd=5835651 dropped=7610 link=5835651
>> worker-0-13: 1525291684.181057 recvd=566766 dropped=0 link=566766
>> worker-0-14: 1525291684.381979 recvd=335114 dropped=0 link=335114
>> worker-0-15: 1525291684.582077 recvd=743998 dropped=0 link=743998
>> worker-0-16: 1525291684.782897 recvd=6124252 dropped=54604 link=6124252
>> worker-0-17: 1525291684.980916 recvd=3476401 dropped=17138 link=3476401
>> worker-0-18: 1525291685.184047 recvd=1286574 dropped=0 link=1286574
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