I think this is what you need, from the man page:

 -c --sticky-hosts

By default idle hosts are periodically purged from memory. Use this
flag to prevent idle hosts from being purged from memory. NOTE: if
idle hosts are kept in memory you can experience severe memory usage.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Xaver Gerster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to pin down top bandwidth users in my network using ntop - to which
> I'm very new.
>
> The environment is such that hosts get switched 'on' and 'off' several times a
> day.
>
> Now, my problem is, that (for me) the info in AllProtocols->Traffic seems to
> refer only to hosts which are currently in the network, i.e. 'on', and
> unfortunately restarts from scratch (i.e. zero Data Snd/Rcv) each time a host
> previously switched 'off' goes online again.
>
> Is there any way to cumulate the traffic each host produces over a certain
> period of time even though it may disappear from the net every now and then
> during this time?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> wbwb
>
>
>
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