Am 10.08.21 um 15:55 schrieb Brian Candler:
> On 10/08/2021 14:30, nfsen-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>> Particularly I try to look at top talkers of these files, especially in the 
>> "inet6" domain:
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 3,5G  9. Aug 08:00 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090755
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2,3G  9. Aug 08:04 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090800
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 891M  9. Aug 08:10 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090805
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 702M  9. Aug 08:15 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090810
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 674M  9. Aug 08:20 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090815
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 737M  9. Aug 08:25 
>> /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc/2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090820
>>
>> 2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090820: Sys: 36.063s
>> 2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090815: Sys: 38.893s
>> 2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090810: Sys: 35.795s
>> 2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090805: Sys: 6141.546s
>> 2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090800: - still waiting (started 3 hours ago)

This is still running (now for 20+ h).

> I would be inclined to look at the RSS of the nfdump process, and overall RAM 
> utilisation of your system, while those queries are going on. (e.g. "top -o 
> RES", "watch free")

The process does not need much RAM (0.5%)

> My guess is that the RAM usage is going so high that it's sending your system 
> heavily into swap.

The system has 128G mostly used for buffers.

> You may find that having a *small* swap partition (e.g. 1GB) is better than a 
> large one; or just turn off swap entirely.  If nfdump runs out of RAM it will 
> be killed by the OOM killer, but at least your system won't turn into treacle 
> and
> freeze.

RAM is not my trouble.

My guess is that IPv6 calculations for top talker are CPU wise "expensive".

> Can you show the actual nfdump query you were using?  What were you grouping 
> on?

/usr/local/bin/nfdump -M /usr/local/nfsen/profiles-data/live/ixia-poc -r 
2021/08/09/nfcapd.202108090800 -n 10 -s ip/flows -6 "(( ident ixia-poc) and ( ( 
inet6 and src net 2a00:8a60::/32 ) ) or ( ident ixia-poc) and ( ( inet6 and dst 
net
2a00:8a60::/32 ) ))"



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