Feature # 7: Performance views

EtherPeek NX™

> ## Feature # 7: Performance views

> #### Streamline monitor and capture

> It's important to balance the need to perform real-time monitoring with post capture analysis. The Performance view of the Monitor Options or Capture Options dialog allows you to specify the processing required for the task at hand by selectively enabling or disabling individual program functions. At the bottom of the Performance view is a spectral band labeled Faster at the left and Slower at the right. As you enable and disable program functions, an indicator moves along this band to give you a rough estimate of the relative impact of various combinations of features on the performance of Monitor statistics or the particular Capture window.

> To change the performance settings:

> 1. Open the Performance view of the Monitor Options or Capture Options dialog. By default, all items are enabled.

> 1. Uncheck the check box beside Size Statistics. Disabling this function has little impact on performance, and the indicator will barely move to the left.
> 2. Uncheck the check boxes beside the Expert and Peer Map functions. Disabling these functions substantially increases performance, and the indicator will move over half of the way to the left.

> The fewer functions enabled, the faster the performance; the more functions, the slower.

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