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Performance tips for IPS

To improve system resources utilization on Deep Security Agent, you can optimize these performance-related settings according to best practices.

System Resource	Settings That Impact Performance
CPU usage	Select Generate Event on Packet Drop Deselect Always Include Packet Data except during troubleshooting Assign only IPS rules that apply to the computer's OS and application stack (recommendation scans can discover applicable vulnerabilities and rules) Don't assign more than 300 rules
Network usage or throughput	Select Generate Event on Packet Drop Deselect Always Include Packet Data except during troubleshooting Deselect Monitor responses from Web Server (especially if the policy has many signatures applied)
Disk usage	Deselect Always Include Packet Data except during troubleshooting