200GB a day

[Nick Diel]

I was involved with a research project that did 1TB/day.  We used an Endace
capture card for that kind of traffic, but argus itself was able to handle
the data just fine.

Nick

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.ca> wrote:

> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > And roughly speaking, how much hard disk space does Argus use per GB of
> > data transfered? (I know that it will be different depending on the type
> > of communication, but I'm just looking for real life figures)
> >
> > Also, I'm a but confused about your numbers. If you are averaging
> > 200Mb/s, wouldn't that mean that you are transfering 109GB per day? But
> > maybe you have lots of quiet time?
>
> It depends on the flows and what options you use. If there are lots of
> small flows vs a few big ones, it makes a difference.  For example, if
> you run a backup service where a few sites send you a bunch of very
> large files, vs someone who provides DNS services.  For us, the argus
> files are about 45GB a day uncompressed.  200Mb/s is a rough 24hr avg
> for a typical day for the parts of the network we monitor. Some times
> will be much higher, others lower.  But the types of traffic make a big
> difference.
>
>        ---Mike
>
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