On Feb 18, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Aaron reported his netflow was reporting too-high spikes. How would shorter 
> flow timeouts - which equals high-frequency reporting bins/windows at the 
> collector - result in *lower* pps counters?

Because the spikes may be artificial, artifacts of backlogged stats.

> I can only see this being the case of the collector doesn't honour start/end 
> times, and does something dumb like assuming end time == reception time. 
> AFAIK that's not the case with nfdump.

Some do, some don't.  Getting your stats 30m late isn't helpful, in any event.

I've seen artificial spikes in bps/pps take place many, many times due to 
active flow timer misconfiguration, that's why I suggested checking the active 
flow timer.  YMMV.

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