> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Donald Sewell
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Ntop-dev] Ntop
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I run ntop on a p800 with 256M and a 80G HD using RedHat 9.0.

May want to think about adding memory, depending upon the # of hosts you'll
be tracking.

> I start ntop with the command:
> Ntop -u root -w 8080 -I eth1 -m 192.68.30.0 -n -o -z -b -r 30
>
> After about 30 minutes my system bogs down and I get the message in
> /var/log/messages
>
> Kernel:  application bug:  ntop[2403] has SIGCHLD set to SIG-IGN but
> calls wait().

That's a warning - RedHat made some changes in 9.0 for NPTL, but all of the
pieces didn't get fixed - read the man page (IIRC it's man signal)

> Ntop[2495]:  ** ERROR ** http generation failed, alarm() tripped.
> Please report this to the ntop-dev list.
>
>
> Ntop[2503]:  ** ERROR ** http generation failed, alarm() tripped.
> Please report this to the ntop-dev list.
>
>
> Ntop[2502]:  ** ERROR ** http generation failed, alarm() tripped.
> Please report this to the ntop-dev list.

Those happen if it takes too long to prepare the page - 15s - which can
happen if you have 1000s and 1000s of hosts.

> When I first ran ntop I had dns lookups on and got an error message that
> a limit had been reached 4096 and no more dns lookups would be
> performed.

Normal - when ntop 1st sees a host it queues the IPs for resolution - that
queue has 4K entries and can fill up in the initial burst of traffic (when
ntop sees most of your hosts for the very first time).


> I have eth1 connected to a cisco 3550 switch port that is mirroring our
> uplink.
>
> I am impressed with the amount of information that ntop provides.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Don Sewell
>
> PS - If there is somewhere I was supposed to read before making this
> request please point the way so I can stumble in the right direction :)

Read docs/FAQ...

>
>


-----Burton

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