[Nfsen-discuss] profile size

[Maurizio M. <mau...@da...>]

Hi Peter,
a while ago, when I said I wanted to automatically create 400 profiles,
you replied me:

"In theory, you could do that with a shell script, as the command line
tool 'nfsen' allows you to setup profiles easily. But current nfsen stores
data along with any existing profile, which means you get a lange amount
of additional data with 400 profiles. However, you could expire the data on
a tight schedule. Upcoming nfsen-1.3 will include new profile type - shadow,
which does not store any additional data."

Now, I'm noting that the profile size that you can control and  expire
"on a tight schedule"  is actually only the one relative to raw netflow
data, while there is a fixed size for the creation of all the .gif and
.rrd files which (mainly due to the .rrd files) is on my system around
57 Mbytes.

So:
1) when you say that the shadow profiles will not store any additional
data, what part are you referrig to? raw data or .rrd?
2) would it be simple to disable the creation of  all these "variants"
of rrd files (for example keep only the "traffic.rrd" file) or would
nfsen crash because it's not able to find the data to create/update all
the .gif files?

Thanks,
Maurizio