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recommended fs scan settings

Hi all,
what are the recommended FS scan settings for parallelism? Is it based on CPU cores?
And what are the recommended settings for scan deapth?

Regards

Marcus

  • Hi Marcus,

    our recommendation usually is 6-8 paralell requests per core available for the scanning Collector.
    You can go higher, or maybe have to drop lower. It's a trial & error to find the sweetspot that has the maximum performance, because at some point too many requests slow it down because they queue up when several slow down.
    We had one customer who experimented with his paralell thread to perfection. But he was also close to retirement

    For depths: go as deep as you want to see information. Usually it's recommended to scan the whole server and limit what ARM is keeping (the second value). That way you might noticed weird permissions easier when all should be the same due to inheritance.

    Cheers
    Björn