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RE: Problem with MYSQL/ACID And Large Database


From: "Pacheco, Michael F." <MPacheco () elcom com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:06:48 -0500

As you mentioned, its hardware driven, I'm running my distributed setup on
converted desktops, I only have 2 real server platforms and I dedicated them
to the sensors themselves - so I got a good number of desktops from a
division closure and distribute the load across as many as possible.  If I
had a real server asset then you are correct, a larger db should not affect
the performance of ACID that much.

But if is a big word, if I only had the proper assets comes to mind.

My 2 cents...

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls () utdallas edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:42 PM
To: Pacheco, Michael F.
Cc: 'snort-users () lists sourceforge net'
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Problem with MYSQL/ACID And Large Database

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:28, Pacheco, Michael F. wrote:

Of course this is workstation related, if your carrying 30k plus
alerts in your MySQL db instance then you really need to set up an
archive instance off the primary db server - but that's a different
story.

Seriously?  30k?  I keep about 300,000 events in the acid_events table
and performance is fine.  When it got over 1,000,000, *then* it was
unacceptably slow, but 300,000 is no problem at all.

I think this number depends on the hardware you're running on and how
well you've set things up.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
AVIEN Founding Member


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