Enabling Traffic Connections for the Smartview Monitor blade

[David_Chau]

Will enabling the Traffic Connections for the Smartview Monitor blade have an affect on CPU and memory resources?  If so, what is the impact?

[Gomboragchaa]

I think it doesn't affect on performance. Maybe very little impact for management server resource. 

It is only shows resource usage.

[Timothy_Hall]

Had someone ask me the exact same question in a private email after reading my book, here is their original question and my answer:

>Regarding using the Monitoring Blade for "streamlined firewall performance troubleshooting". Do you recommend to enable all 3 check boxes (CP system counters, traffic connections and traffic throughput)? A note in the configuration page says "traffic history reports may have performance implications". Are there any recommendations to avoid those?
>

Yep definitely enable all these. What this actually does is load a
separate kernel driver on the firewall called rtm to gather and record
the extra statistics. Perhaps in the old days prior to CoreXL and the
speedy cores/memory we enjoy now, the performance impact would be
noticeable. I haven't noticed any kind of performance/acceleration
degradation by enabling all these checkboxes for many many years, and I

think this ominous-sounding warning is just legacy now.

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