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The below information details scaling and performance of File Security Virtual Appliance.

Performance metrics

Below are some results of how long a scan takes for various file types. The server used for testing had the following specifications:
  • Compute instance:
    • 16 vCPU, 32 GiB memory, up to 10 Gbps network
  • File storage server: NFS v3 server
  • File type - 30 popular file types mixed
  • Typical throughput:
File scanned per unit
100k median size
1MB median size
10MB median size
Scanned per minute
50,000
16,000
2,500
Scanned per hour
3,000,000
960,000
150,000
Scanned per day
72,000,000
23,040,000
3,6000,000

Performance test

Sample file category
Sample size range
Median sample size
Per 100MB scan time - median (seconds)
Scans per minute (estimate)
Scans per minute (actual)
10s of KB
700B - 66KB
25.6KB
4.28
140,000 scans per minute
(@10KB}
60,000 scans per minute
(@25KB)
100s of KB
163KB - 925KB
344KB
1.15
50,000 scans per minute
(@100KB)
15,000 scans per minute
(@350KB)
1s of MB
1.1MB - 7.7 MB
3.1MB
.38
16,000 scans per minute
(@1MB)
7,000 scans per minute
(@3MB)
10s of MB
10MB - 130MB
26MB
.24
2,500 scans per minute
(@10MB)
1,000 scans per minute
(@26MB)