Hello. One reason for the differences might be that the processes are given different priorities under the two OS's. It may not be so, but I would have looked at the priorites of the two. Renice is included in Snow Leopard ... Den 7. mars 2011 kl. 20.01 skrev Zack Perry:
> Ryan, > Thanks for responding and the quick port update for etherape to 0.9.10. > Appreciated! > I downloaded your port, and tested it side by side with my own build. Their > behavior is the same. Two visible differences: > Neither are quick in responding to network events as their counterpart > running on Linux (e.g. CentOS 5.5 and Ubuntu 10.04, both I use active. On > Linux, even a ping to a remote host (e.g. www.google.com) generates visible > node cicles and traffic graphs in Etherape, not on OS X. Although in the > Prot. pane, traffic stats are updated periodically as anticipatedEven > significant network traffic (e.g. downloading OpenOffice dmg file from > http://www.openoffice.org/) doesn't generate visible node cicles and traffic > graphs in the Etherape running in OS X. In Linux, the entire display probably > would be filled completely by such an event. > I am not sure why there are such "behavior" differences. The lack of visible > traffic graphs and node cicles make Etherape much less useful in OS X IMHO. > BTW, I did try etherape from both Fink and MacPorts, but due to the less > comprehensive coverage of Fink, I favor MacPorts more. I have done a > chmod 0 /sw/bin/dbus-daemon > and removed /sw/bin from my $PATH, so I should be using exclusively MacPorts > now. But issues with Etherape has been quite puzzling to me. Further > hints/suggestions as to how to rectify Etherape's behavior are appreciated. > Regards, > -- Zack > > >> I made a small progress. I decided to download the latest stable >> etherape-0.9.10 source and build it myself, using libraries that were built >> when I was trying out the macports version. >> >> Once I sudo myself into root, I performed the following. Now I can see IP >> addresses, but still not node cicles and traffic graphs. >> >> I am contemplating to rebuild all libraries that etherape depends; using all >> latest stable to see if it make any difference, but I know given my current >> work load, such a time consuming task may have to wait. So, I would >> appreciate any hints. > > I have now updated etherape to 0.9.10 in MacPorts. If there are any other > ports in MacPorts that are not at their latest stable versions, feel free to > file port update tickets in the issue tracker to request that they be updated. > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users Best regards Tommy Bollman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
