Re: [tcpdump-workers] Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

2006-01-21 Thread computational_complex-forthespam
--- Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > _Clusters_?!? That is a rather important detail... > Somehow I seriously doubt that a libpcap application > can span nodes in a > computational cluster. At least not the stuff doing > the promiscuous mode bits. We used the pcaps for a prototype

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

2006-01-14 Thread computational_complex-forthespam
Thanks everybody for replies! --- Gianluca Varenni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Uhm, what is the problem with multithreading? I > think that all the modern > OSes schedule on a per thread basis (or better, at > least they schedule the > different threads of a process on different CPUs). I

[tcpdump-workers] Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

2006-01-12 Thread computational_complex-forthespam
Hi people! I'm writing a sniffer with libpcap 0.9.3 that gets packets and makes some cpu-intensive work with those. I want to use a multi process architecture (rather than a multi thread one) because i want to distribute work on multiple processor; so i thought two way to do this: - every process