argus threaded

[Peter Van Epp]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:36:54PM -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As a was building the latest version of argus I noticed that there is  
> the option to run argus as a threaded process.
>
> Currently we run 4 seperate version of argus with different bpf filters  
> (we have 4 cpus in our argus box).
>
> Wondering if anyone is running argus with threads under linux and what  
> your experience/thoughts are with this type of setup.
>
> Cheers,
> Harry
>

	Unless you are (as I often do) removing .thread in the top level of 
the clients directory, you are running threads by default if your machine 
supports it. It is still disabled by default (no .thread) in the argus 
distribution, I had a variety of problems with hangs early in 3.0 and I think 
we eventually decided it was problematic and disabled it (again, I was in any 
case :-)) but Carter will have the best opinion on how stable it may be if
enabled.

Peter Van Epp