CPU Consumption on Itanium Processors

The graphs below show that the CPU consumption of HIDS processes increases as the event load is increased. For any given event rate, the CPU consumption is less than on PA systems by a significant amount (between approximately 30-80%).

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HP Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) manual CPU Consumption on Itanium Processors, Way IA