Problems with piping Argus output to rasplit

[Nick Diel]

I am having some problems piping Argus to rasplit.  I have a large set 
of pcaps I am turning into argus records.  I have about 700gigs of pcaps 
with a baseline of 10,000 packets/second and peaks at 17,000 packets/second.

I am using the following command:
mergecap -a -w - pcap/*.pcap | argus -AJR -r - -w - | rasplit -r - -w 
argus. -a 4 -M size 1000m
  ArgusWarning: argus[21937]: 20 Mar 08 11:36:52.428622 
ArgusWriteOutSocket(0xb7eaf008) max queue exceeded 100001
  ArgusWarning: argus[21937]: 20 Mar 08 11:36:52.428879 
ArgusWriteOutSocket(0xb7eaf008) max queue exceeded 100001

rasplit dies with in 30 seconds of starting (no messages to stderr), 
though it has created a 65mb files.  racount shows the 65mb file has no 
flows.  I can't tell if the Argus error message is before or after 
rasplit dies.

The disk system is a fairly fast raid 5, 4 cpu cores, 2 gig of ram.  
Barely any ram is in use when rasplit dies.

Any thoughts?

Nick