Re: Calculating events per sec

"Anton Chuvakin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
All,

> I am working on putting together a SIMs package and one bit of info. I need
> is to calculate the events per second we expect to get.  I don't know if

Well, this is a genuinely hard problem :-). One can come up with a
semi-sensible estimate based on global averages  (e.g. a "typical"
Linux server produces X messages per day), but such estimates will
vary WILDLY. And I mean wildly like 1-1000 messages/second.

I'd suggest just looking at the daily logs and counting them (then
dividing by 24 x 3600 to come up with a per second rate) ... no rocket
science here.

Best,
-- 
Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA, GCIH, GCFA
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