ADVANCED CAPTURE

TECHNIQUES
COMPARISON
SYNCHRONIZED CAPTURES
RING BUFFERING

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CLEAR

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CLEAR
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 SIZING A RING BUFFER EXAMPLE

RESPONSE TIME: 30 MINUTES

PEAK TRAFFIC: 8 Mbps = 1 MBps = 60 MB per minute
TOTAL BUFFER REQUIREMENT: 60MBpm x 30 Minutes = 1.8 GB (1800 MB)
TOTAL NUMBER OF 100MB BUFFER FILES NEEDED: 1800 ÷ 100 = 18
 CLEAR THE BROWSER CACHE

• NECESSARY IF YOU WANT TO GET A CLEAN TRACE OF AN HTTP SESSION

• IF THE TRACE IS FULL OF 304 STATUS CODES, THE CACHE WAS NOT
PROPERLY CLEARED
 CLEAR ANY SERVER CACHES

• NECESSARY IN CASES WHERE CACHED DATA ON THE SERVER COULD

INVALIDATE RESULTS
• MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE, DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION
REDUCING NOISE
• CLOSE ALL NON-ESSENTIAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
• CLOSE ALL NON-ESSENTIAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
• START THE CAPTURE AND THEN IMMEDIATELY REPRODUCE THE
ISSUE
• CLOSE ALL NON-ESSENTIAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
• START THE CAPTURE AND THEN IMMEDIATELY REPRODUCE THE
ISSUE
• STOP THE CAPTURE QUICKLY ONCE ERROR STATE APPEARS