Hardware Sizing¶
Indications on process, memory and disk required are given below for networks with three different sizes.
Network Size¶
| Small Network | Medium Network | Large Network | |
| Traffic | < 100Mbps | Between 100Mbps and 1Gbps | Above 1Gbps |
| Active Hosts | Hundredths | Thousands | Hundreds of thousands |
| Active Flows | Thousands | Hundreds of thousands | Millions |
Note
On large networks, special extra configuration is required as explained in Operating ntopng on large networks.
Processor and Memory¶
| Small Network | Medium Network | Large Network | |
| Processor | 2cores+ | 4cores+ | 8cores+ |
| Memory | 2GB+ | 4GB+ | 16GB+ |