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.
> 
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