[ARGUS] Best Hardware

[Steve McInerney]

"Best" is a somewhat loaded term. :-)
Best for what? How much data? How much money? How fast are the results 
needed etc etc etc

 From previous comments (Carter's and Peter Van Epp's???), I understand 
that Mac platforms make excellent argus capture boxen. Something about 
the endian being the right way, from memory. That discussion should be 
in the archives in the last 12 months or so.


I stopped using argus on my Solaris boxes a while ago; wasn't as stable 
as x86/linux and they were waaaay overworked as is - which may have 
influenced the first problem too.


In our case, the work is currently done on a 1Ghz P3 - but then we don't 
have a lot of data, and how long it takes is largely irrelevant.


Sorry to be so vague...


- Steve


Andrew Hall wrote:
> What hardware do people recommend for the best crunching of argus files with
> the various argus clients, in particular ra and racount?
> 
> Intel, AMD, Sparc ??
> 
> Do these clients make use of an SMP machine (assuming the box is dedicated
> to log analysis)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
>