CPC H04L 47/2441 (2013.01) [H04L 43/026 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A method for detecting an elephant flow by inspecting operations of a machine that operates on a physical host computer, the method comprising:
at a detector operating on the physical host computer, receiving information from an agent executing on the machine regarding a file transfer initiated by an application executing on the machine, the information comprising a size of the file to be transferred and a data flow associated with the file transfer;
when the file size exceeds a threshold, specifying the data flow associated with the file transfer as an elephant flow; and
reporting that the data flow is an elephant flow, wherein a managed forwarding element processes the data associated with the detected elephant flow differently from other flows not detected as elephant flows.
|