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 :ref:OperatingNtopngOnLargeNetworks.

Processor and Memory

+-----------+---------------+----------------+---------------+ | | Small Network | Medium Network | Large Network | +-----------+---------------+----------------+---------------+ | Processor | 2cores+ | 4cores+ | 8cores+ | +-----------+---------------+----------------+---------------+ | Memory | 2GB+ | 4GB+ | 16GB+ | +-----------+---------------+----------------+---------------+

Disk

See ntopng Disk Requirements for Timeseries and Flows <https://www.ntop.org/ntopng/ntopng-disk-requirements-for-timeseries-and-flows/>_.