[ARGUS] Best Hardware

[Andrew Hall]

I am looking for the best hardware for the following;

- dedicated box for running multiple (>100) different ra queries over 1GB
compressed argus files each day

- This host will not be running argus captures itself.

Andrew

On 12/10/04 8:36 AM, "Steve McInerney" <spm at healthinsite.gov.au> wrote:

> "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
>> 
>>