# Performance testing BRO **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [December 14, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/performance-testing-bro/1086 "2006-12-14T05:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Randy\_Caldejon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ad7895/32.png) [@Randy\_Caldejon](https://community.zeek.org/u/Randy_Caldejon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/performance-testing-bro/1086/1 "2006-12-14T05:15:08Z")
Greetings, My company is in the process of porting ntop ( [www.ntop.org](http://www.ntop.org) ) to a hardware acceleration platform. After this, we'd like to do the same for BRO as an experiment. I'm curious to know if there is a standard suite of tests used to benchmark BRO? Our goal is to baseline BRO on commodity hardware then run the same tests on the accelerated platform. We have ideas on how to do this, but we're certainly open to suggestions -- especially from those intimately familiar with BRO. Regards, Randy ---
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/performance-testing-bro/1086/2 "2006-12-15T19:52:01Z")
No, we don't have any performance benchmark. We did some performance measurements in the past on traces (see [http://www.icir.org/robin/papers/ccs04.pdf](http://www.icir.org/robin/papers/ccs04.pdf)), but I'd suppose that you guys are more interested in live traffic. In general, when doing measurements with Bro, it is important to keep in mind that performance depends a \*lot\* on the actual configuration. Bro internally applies various schemes to only perform types of analysis which are actually required for the given setup. Robin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/performance-testing-bro/1086/3 "2022-05-06T15:38:05Z")