Running Hsbench

Hsbench is a performance benchmark tool provided by Hyperscan. You can compare the performance before and after KHSEL is used based on hsbench test results.

1. Go to the build directory.

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   cd build

2. Obtain hsbench rule sets and input data, and decompress them to the build/hsbench-samples directory.

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3. Run hsbench.

   ./bin/hsbench -e ./hsbench-samples/pcre/snort_literals -c ./hsbench-samples/corpora/gutenberg.db -N -n1

   Test results:

   

   Parameters in the test results:

   • Time spent scanning: time taken to scan the target database using the target rule set
   • Matches per iteration: number of matches in each iteration using the rule set
   • Mean throughput (overall): average throughput (Mbit/s)
   • Max throughput (per core): maximum throughput among each CPU core (Mbit/s)