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From: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
To: bloat-devel <bloat-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: PF_ring and friends: Options for making Linux suck less when  capturing packets
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:23:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111019172314.BA1D8800037@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> of "Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:52:44 PDT." <20111019095244.27354f74@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>


> USB sticks are real slow. Even some infinitely fast capture isn't going to
> get around that.  Get a real SSD and put it in enclosure that supports USB
> 3.0? 

I don't think a SSD is necessary.

100 megabits is 12.5 megabytes.

I just did a quick test.  I can read 19-20 megabytes/sec from a rotating disk 
over USB.

That's the raw hardware.  I don't know how much overhead the file system adds.



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-19 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 16:44 Dave Taht
2011-10-19 16:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-10-19 17:23   ` Hal Murray [this message]
2011-11-05 11:30     ` Petri Rosenström
2011-10-19 17:02 ` Jim Gettys

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