ranonymize too slow?

[Christos Papadopoulos]

Hi Carter,

We are using the latest version of the client tools.

After letting it run for 4.5 hours I had to kill it. There are just 
under a billion records in the file. When I killed it, this is what I 
got. I have no idea how much longer it would run.

Address Summary
   IPv4 Unicast              src 11411339    dst 43953546
   IPv4 Unicast Private      src 85          dst 353
   IPv4 Unicast Reserved     src 12654028    dst 51692353
   IPv4 Multicast Local      src 0           dst 2

Christos.

On 12/01/2014 11:49 AM, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Christos,
> The primary demand in IP address anonymization is the number of IP addresses that need to be anonymized.   So how many addresses are in the file ??
>
>    racount -M addr -r big.file
>
> What version of clients are you using ??
> Carter
>
>> On Dec 1, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Christos Papadopoulos <christos at cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am trying to use ranonymize for some large argus files. This is useful for us because we want to share some argus data with fellow researchers, but anonymize them to protect the innocent.
>>
>> The file I am trying to anonymize is large, about 18GB compressed. As you can imagine, there are millions of flows in there.
>>
>> I only want IP address anonymization, so I turned everything else off in the ranonymize.conf file.
>>
>> Well, ranonymize has been running for almost 3 hours with about 1/20th of the file done. It is using 100% of a CPU, but only 4% of memory in a 32GB machine. Clearly it's not a memory or swap issue.
>>
>> I can't figure out why it's taking so long. I thought it would be almost as fast as reading and writing the file plus some time to compress/decompress and some time for checking the hash for the anonymized addresses.
>>
>> Any idea what's pounding the CPU and slowing it down? I can investigate further by profiling the code, but thought I throw the question out there first in case someone else has done it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Christos.
>>