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When
capturing data from a large and busy network segment, you should
keep in mind that processing thousands of packets per second may
considerably increase the CPU usage and make the application less
responsive. The best way to optimize the program's performance is
to use rules to filter out the packets you don't need to monitor.
For example, sending a 50 MB file between two machines on your LAN
can generate approximately 40,000 NetBIOS packets with the data
transfer rate of 10 MBytes per second, which can be a heavy load
for the application. But normally you don't to need to view every
NetBIOS packet being sent, so you can configure CommView to capture
IP packets only. CommView has a flexible system of filters, and you
can fine-tune the application to display only the packets that you
really need. Also, if you are interested in the statistics
information only (those green histograms, pie charts, and hosts
tables), you can use the "Suspend packet output" menu command,
which allows you to have statistical data without real-time packet
display.
The factors that improve
the program's performance:
·A fast
CPU (Intel Core i7 is recommended)
·RAM
size (2 GB and higher recommended)
·Using
rules to filter out unnecessary traffic
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