It’s been a busy six months at nPulse Technologies. We’ve achieved a huge milestone this week: the release of our HammerHead 3.0, Ultrafast Packet Capture Solution. Below is an htop snapshot of a HammerHead streaming 10Gbps-to-disk, sustained for 30 minutes without packet loss while tracking, indexing, and exporting flows. Notice the distribution of threads across the processor cores with a CPU load of only 0.27.
Category: Open Source
I am sharing this video as a follow-up to last week’s blog entry about hardware acceleration. With permission from our customer (undisclosed), I captured a very short video clip of sixteen (16) instances of Snort 2.9.x running under a load.

Curious to see what an accelerated Suricata looks like under a load? Take a look.
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