Hmmm, log file from sniffer shows significant increase
in performance (up to 50% faster, see below). However, according to my own logs,
the total time that sniffer takes is way longer. During non-persistent operation
about 300 ms on top of what sniffer logs, which could be because of loading
Pete,
I haven't been following this thread closely but latest generation SCSI
drives can be below 4 ms seek times as rated by their manufacturers.
FYI, I haven't seen any issues with the persistent Sniffer beta run as
a resource kit service besides some expected brief delays according to
the
What is the best and proper way to setup Persistent mode on a windows 2000
computer and run as a service.
Fred
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From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:30 PM
Subject: RE: [sniffer] Final beta (b2) for snfrv2r3
Sniffer is adaptive. You can turn the persistent instance on and off at
will. Simply stop the service - a reboot is not needed. If the persistent
instance is turned off then the remaining instances will organize
themselves in the usual way.
I don't have it running as a service, I started the
My findings are that persistent is offering great benefits, havnt tried an
excessively harsh test yet, but i'm about to do that.
Just ran sniffer in both persistent and non-persistent modes with over 1,000 mesages
in the overflow and MaxQueProc at 50. This pegs out my CPU between 90% 100%
At 09:11 PM 4/7/04 -0400, Pete McNeil wrote:
sniffer.exe stop - will stop the persistent server by sending it a message
file.
Run 'sniffer.exe stop' at the command line and your persistent instance
will exit cleanly on it's own. [ replace sniffer.exe with the name of your
executable of course
This worked great.
Thanks.
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From: Pete McNeil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [sniffer] Final beta (b2) for snfrv2r3
At 08:36 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
What is the best and proper way to setup Persistent
Tried the above and got an error message. Tried:
sniffer.exe xxauthenticationxx stop
and it paused a few seconds and returned to command prompt, so I'm guessing
that it stopped.
That doesn't sound quite right.
In the distribution there are some .CMD files that show examples of the
commands:
Since you're up, sorry to ask, where's the beta? Didn't save the e-mail.
Rob
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