Degraded network performance compared to virtual machine

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ranchu
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Degraded network performance compared to virtual machine

Post by ranchu »

Hello,

We are using application which need to record packets from network.
We observed high degredation in performance (compared with virtualbox/vmware).

Is there a way to optimize network performance with wine ?

Thanks,
Ran
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Bob Wya
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Re: Degraded network performance compared to virtual machine

Post by Bob Wya »

ranchu wrote:Hello,

We are using application which need to record packets from network.
We observed high degredation in performance (compared with virtualbox/vmware).

Is there a way to optimize network performance with wine ?
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@ranchu

My immediate thought is.... What???!!
Why are you not using a native Unix solution?
This kind of use case is seriously off the roadmap for Wine optimisation.

Wine Staging allows tweaks to run Wine in higher priority states / pseudo real-time...
But you're still going to be hit by the fact that Wine runs in User Space.

Why not use all the network niceties built into the BSD or Linux kernels?
E.g. Linux has nftables and iptables - in my experience the latter is a reasonably powerful tool...
At least this stuff is built into the Linux kernel and therefore reasonably performant.

Bob
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