Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark Performance on Laptops

[Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Sake Blok wrote:
> 
> > (however, a recent post *did* reveal that display filtering was way
> > quicker on MacOS/X and Linux as it was on Windows)
> 
> Which posting was that?

http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200906/msg00211.html

 
> > I can imagine the drivers being optimized for normal usage of the
> > network, not capturing.
> 
> For desktop usage, that *might* mean no polling, as polling increases  
> latency and boosts throughput, although if you're downloading  
> something big, or streaming something, that might be the right tradeoff.
>
> For server usage, that might mean polling.

And for capturing, you want accurate timestamps (so 1 IRQ per packet)
and being able to handle a high amount of packets per second (polling).
I guess in the end, analysis of the data is more important than
capturing the data, as that can be done with other devices in most of
the time too.



> > Assuming you are working on a MacBook (Pro?), did you get a chance to
> > work with a SSD as well as a HDD? If so, did you experience different
> > performance?
> 
> At home, an MBP; it has a (rather crowded) HDD:
> 
> 	$ df /
> 	Filesystem   512-blocks      Used Available Capacity  Mounted on
> 	/dev/disk0s2  311909984 302013824   9384160    97%    /

Mmmm... I seem to keep filling up my laptop with data over and over
again too :-)


Cheers,


Sake