Adrian
cores have nothing to do with the your question. ntop is multithread and 
threads can be spawn to multiple cores

Luca

On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Adrian Rapa wrote:

> hi,
> so it can use only one core?
> 
> Cu respect,
> Adrian Rapa
> Millennium IT
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> On 07.01.2011 15:02, Luca Deri wrote:
>> Adrian
>> ntop is CPU bound that means that even if you accelerate packet capture, 
>> ntop performance will not increase much. Please use nprobe are preprocessor 
>> of packets that are converted to flows and analyzed by ntop
>> 
>> Regards Luca
>> 
>> On Jan 1, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Adrian Rapa wrote:
>> 
>>> hi,
>>> i am trying to do a ntop pfring setup.
>>> I compiled pf_ring, e1000e and libpcap drivers from svn.
>>> I compiled ntop with ./configure --with-rrd-home=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.5/ 
>>> --with-pcap-root=/kit/pf_ring/PF_RING/userland/libpcap-1.0.0-ring/ 
>>> LIBS="-lpcap -lpfring -lpthread"
>>> I have eth1 which is a port mirror with about 700Mb of trafic RX+tx.
>>> 
>>> If i start ntop -i eth1 i have a lot of packet loss. If i use top, i see 
>>> that a single cpu is used to capture packets.
>>> As i know pf_ring should increase the packet capture rate, but it is acting 
>>> as normal linux  pcap.
>>> 
>>> is it normal for ntop to use a single cpu, or can i do somenthing to use 
>>> all 8 CPU?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Cu respect,
>>> Adrian Rapa
>>> Millennium IT
>>> 
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