On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 17:11 +0200, Grant Pasley wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I am experiencing and issue where ntop crashes at random intervals,
> sometimes it will run for a few days, sometimes it will crash every
> few hours. I am running ntop version 4.03 on centos 5.6 64 bit: 
> 
> Jun 20 14:24:13 sentinel ntop[6824]:   **WARNING** packet truncated
> (8754->8232)

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Not sure if the packet truncated messages are ultimately related to the
crash, but they suggest that the code in pbuf.c isn't setup to handle
either TSO (TCP segmentation offload) or LRO/GRO (Large Receive/Generic
Receive Offload) on your system.

So, at the downside if increasing the CPU utilization on your system,
you could disable either/both of those optimizations (TSO has been
around for many years, LRO/GRO have arrived in the last couple) and see
if that improves stability.

That, or, based on some grepping for 8232, you could go
into ./globals-defines.h and ./globals.core.c and re-educate the code.

rick jones


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