Hardware specs?

[Harry Hoffman]

Hi Jim,

That's exactly right. Are you running on a 1G link? Any idea how many pps?

For 1G links you can get away with some pretty cheap hardware. A dell
2950 or similar should fit the bill.

I've run argus on fairly saturated 1G links with 4G of ram, a Intel
card, and a raid 5 with 72G disks.

If you decide to use the packet capture features of argus then
requirements will vary.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Harry

On 03/06/2013 08:12 PM, James A. Robinson wrote:
> I was hunting around on the FAQ for "hardware" and "memory", but I
> don't see any recommendations for the hardware to use to run a radium
> server.  I imagine it all depends on how much data one wants to
> collect.
> 
> If we want to monitor two dozen web servers that, collectively, serve
> something like 2000 requests per second with associated database and
> NFS traffic, would anyone have recommendations on how much memory we
> ought to have on the radium server?  Will SAS vs SATA disk be
> important?
> 
> What I'm looking to do initially is collect information on HTTP
> traffic counts (requests per second, bytes per second) for subnets
> connecting to ours.  Later I'd like to be able to put together reports
> on the total amount of NFS traffic between our backend systems.
> 
> Jim
> 
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