[flow-tools] performance question

[Systems Administrator]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin@finseth.com>
To: <flow-tools@splintered.net>
Cc: <craig@finseth.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 7:09 AM
Subject: [flow-tools] performance question


> 2) Over 50% of the total wall clock time is spent in flow-nfilter.
> This step involves producing a flow file for each customer that
> contains only flows to or from that customer.  The source of data for
> this step is the set of flow files that contains data from all parts
> of the network merged together.  The CPU is about 40% busy during this
> step.  A typical filter file is:


    So where's the bottleneck on this one?  Disk?  Memory?  

Tim Nelson
Systems Administrator
Sunet Internet
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