racluster crashes, and memory utilization

[Russell Fulton]

ra is not a memory hog  -- it works a record at a time unlike racluster
which has to load the whole file to accumulate the totals.

Russell

Michael Hornung wrote:
> That may well work ok for me, provided I can still process the end result 
> aggregate file using 'ra' on my 1GB-of-RAM box.  =)
>
> If not, I would appreciate feedback on how I could estimate the amount of 
> memory required for processing with 'racluster' and associated argus 
> tools, given a known number of source hosts and total bandwidth 
> consumption.
>
> I will check for the new RC and try it out when available.
>
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