[Zeek] Number of CPU cores for 100Gbps

[Woot4moo]

My understanding is that 4,000+ CPU cores would be necessary to support
this throughput. In the recent meeting from CERN I recall seeing someone
describe 200Gbps, which would imply 8,000+ CPU cores. Is this accurate, or
am I doing a conversion incorrectly?

I am basing this purely on this quote, from

https://docs.zeek.org/en/stable/cluster/

“The rule of thumb we have followed recently is to allocate approximately 1
core for every 250Mbps of traffic that is being analyzed. However, this
estimate could be extremely traffic mix-specific. It has generally worked
for mixed traffic with many users and servers. For example, if your traffic
peaks around 2Gbps (combined) and you want to handle traffic at peak load,
you may want to have 8 cores available (2048 / 250 == 8.2). ”
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