System information

256 Observer General Options
Enter a descriptive name for the custom memory configuration and select a previous
configuration as a model for the new configuration if desired. Click Next> to display the
second setup dialog:
By clicking on one of the Network Types buttons, you can view and change the number of
entries allocated for each statistical type:
An entry is a record of the given statistic; for example, a Top Talker entry consists of a
station, for errors, an entry would consist of error listing. When you constrain a report to n
number of entries, the Probe will only report the last n entries to the Observer console;
entries after the nth entry are never reported or displayed on the Observer console.
Observer informs you when the Probe is exceeding its memory buffer for a particular
statistic by displaying an error message.
Setting the Total System Memory reserved for Probes
Because Observer operates in real-time, its buffers must always remain in RAM; if the
buffers resided in standard Windows user memory, nothing would prevent the buffer file
from being swapped out to disk and subsequent packet loss. For this reason, the Probe