Implications of turning on layer-7 timeseries

Peter Shute <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ntop.general
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Can anyone please tell what the implications are of turning on the option labelled "Toggle the creation of application protocols timeseries for local hosts and defined local networks"?

What will this allow me to do? And what's likely to be affected by it? Just disk space?

Peter Shute
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