Frank
ntop "classic" is not designed for speed. ntopng is designed for speed: 
http://www.ntop.org/ntop/its-time-for-a-completely-new-ntop-say-hello-to-ntopng/

Please stay tuned as within a week or so we will release the first version

Luca

On May 28, 2013, at 8:49 PM, "Eargle, Frank" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am attempting to sample traffic on an Intel e1000e.  The network in 
> question runs around 250 Mb/s traffic during the day.  There are around 10K 
> computers on the inside.
> 
> Using ntop 4 with or without PF_Ring, I get 0.1% packet drop.  Running ntop 
> 5.0.1 it running up to 650% dropped packets.  It says libpcap is the one 
> dropping, but snort is not having the same issues.  When I turned off 
> protocol analysis under 5.0.1 it dropped to 3 or 4 percent drops.  Thinking 
> it was the capture itself, I tried pf_ring on both snort and ntop.  It didn't 
> seem to help the drops on ntop.  It did lower cpu utilization on snort a good 
> bit.
> 
> I have DNS resolution turned off on both, track local hosts is on for both 
> versions of ntop.
> 
> If I run three instances of ntop 5.0.1, 1 for udp, tcp without port 80 and 1 
> with only tcp 80, that instance drops the traffic.  The other two instances 
> do fine.
> 
> Is there a way to make ntop 5.x use only the same protocol (read port) based 
> analysis and turn off the nDPI?  Or is something else causing this?
> 
> Also how can it drop 650% of the traffic?  It's injecting packets?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -F
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