Hi everyone, I’m not so new to Suricata, but I have a problem loading rules. I have received more than 2 miles of rules to apply and the time it takes to process them is in hours. When I look at htop, only one core is fully utilized, but Suricata says it has 4 management threads. I am already usin…

The initial rule loading is single-threaded unfortunately. We also noticed this when running >200k rules (and updating them daily). I agree that datasets are the way to go if the rules are autogenerated from a secondary indicator set. Another option, in that case, would be to do downstream matching …

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Luke (Luke D) April 7, 2020, 9:52am 10

Thank you for explanation, I will look on it.

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