Say there are 30K people trying to connect to you. Just because you're limiting the # of connections per second DOES NOT MEAN you are limiting the # of hosts that may make a connection.
Unique hosts are what causes ntop to use memory. -----Burton ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Garvin Hicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:02:31 +0100 (CET) >Hi Luca & Burton! > >As suggested I took the latest CVS release (2 days ago) and compiled it. > >The problem is, memory usage is up like before. When deactivating the >RRDTool-Plugin, everything is fine. But having it activated results in huge memory >increase. I tracked it's usage down with the following graph: > >http://supergarv.dyndns.org/cacti/graph_image.php?graphid=63&rraid=1 > >About at 10 o'clock that day I restarted ntop using the '-K' parameter, but sadly I >do not get any output. > >Is there anything I can do to track the heritage of the memory consumption? Every 5 >minutes I take the ntop usage from 'top' and get a file that looks like this: > >Fri Mar 7 15:55:17 CET 2003 > 2891 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:00 ntop > 2892 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:00 ntop > 2893 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:00 ntop > 2895 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 12:50 ntop > 2896 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:59 ntop > 2897 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:08 ntop > 2899 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 0:22 ntop > 2900 hicking 9 0 132M 63M 1428 S 0.0 25.4 1:36 ntop > >I get an increase in memory usage of about 0.1 - 0.5% every five minutes. > >My PC is using a 768/128kbit DSL dialiup, resetting every 24h hours. It mainly >delivers HTTP pages (about 1-2 hit/second, statistically) and is used as a >P2P-Client (eDonkey). There are about 180 TCP-sockets active the whole time, and my >eDonkey-Client is not allowed to take up more than 120 connections per second. > >I will shut down my eDonkey-Client now and see if this could be the reason. > >Regards, >Garvin. >_______________________________________________ >Ntop-dev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev > ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/ _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
