I have recompiled the kernel with automatic grsec 
configuration->Server->Performance

I will give feedback later…

Am 16.05.2014 um 11:27 schrieb Christian Rößner <[email protected]>:

>> What is high load for you?
> 
> Well, it is not the value 2.x or 3.x in the load avergae. It is that I can 
> not understand, why CPU load ist near zero, disk IO is low and the system 
> behaves like being under heaviest load. For example, if I am ssh-ing to the 
> machine that can take up to a minute until I get a shell prompt. Even 
> powering the system down with acpi did take endless until I decided to power 
> off the server hard (which you can see in the RAID controller output).
> 
> And we just speak about 40-50 MBit/s. I thought, ntopng is a userland 
> application. So if the load comes from decoding packets, why can I not see 
> this in the CPUs (looking at top).
> 
> The ssh-daemon is running on a separate NIC.
> 
> I played around with IO scheduler CFQ/deadlin. I tuned CONFIG_HZ 250->1000. I 
> tried out full preempt. No changes. Always the same result. And I can not 
> understand that this new server with lots of power feels exactly the same as 
> the old G4. So I think, something is going wrong here.
> 
> I mean there are 8 cores and 8 HT. The disks are SAS and the NICs are 
> gigabit. And 40-50 MBit bring the server to near unusable state. How can this 
> be?
> 
> So I come here to the list to report feedback :)
> 
> Maybe it has to do with some GRSec options in the kernel? What could cause 
> trouble? I have seen that ntopng does anonymous mamory mapping. Not knowing 
> what this is, but I had to grant access for this with paxctl. So maybe there 
> are some other options that might conflict and so I hope you developers might 
> be possible to help me :)
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance
> 
> Christian
> 
>> Remember ntopng will decode every packet at L7 to try to identify the 
>> protocol, that means It will read the full packet, every packet.
>> 
>> I have ntopng in a very normal server (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3430  @ 2.40GHz 
>> and 8Gb RAM), with 1 switch port mirrored to 1 interface on the server with 
>> arround 400Mbps+ and 53k+ pps and this is my load average.
>> 
>> ntop@ntop:~$ top
>> top - 19:35:51 up 101 days,  6:26,  2 users,  load average: 3.90, 4.73, 4.49
>> Tasks:  92 total,   3 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  3.5%us,  1.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 80.1%id, 13.5%wa,  0.1%hi,  1.1%si,  
>> 0.0%st
>> with those TOP Proccess
>> 14564 ntop      20   0 1965m 1.1g 5400 S   42 14.2  61:40.36 ntopng
>> 16400 redis     20   0  163m 153m  280 R   26  1.9   0:00.13 redis-server
>> 14312 root      20   0 18748 4940 1720 D    6  0.1   4:02.32 dibbler-server
>> 1156 redis     20   0  163m 153m  612 R    2  1.9   5888:00 redis-server
>> 
>> This is the normal behaviour and cpu load, at least as far i know.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> El 15/05/2014 18:12, Christian Rößner escribió:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I had installed ntopng from SVN and compiled it on an HP ProLiant G4 server 
>>> with 6GB RAM and 2 CPUs. Okay, load got high and therefor I decided to by a 
>>> new machine for that task. Now it is a HP ProLiant SEM316M1 (same as 
>>> DL160G6) with 24GB RAM. Tripple channel. And I still have too high load on 
>>> the system. I am totally stuck and frustrated.
>>> 
>>> I have mirrored 3 witch ports and they are connected to a separate port on 
>>> the server. The totally traffic that arrives on this NIC is no more than 
>>> 50MBit/s. So this is really less.
>>> 
>>> I have installed irqbalance and numad. The RAID-controller is battery 
>>> backed up.
>>> 
>>> So currently I have no clue, what is going wrong. As this ntopng is from 
>>> SVN, I have updated several times. Always doing a "make clean“ and 
>>> ./configure.
>>> 
>>> The system is a Gentoo hardened 3.13.10 kernel.
>>> 
>>> I have done paxctl -cm on the ntopng binary.
>>> 
>>> This is my current ntopng configuration:
>>> 
>>> # ntopng.conf
>>> #
>>> 
>>> -n=3
>>> -i=enp2s0f1
>>> -d=/opt/ntopng/data
>>> -G=/opt/ntopng/var/run/ntopng.pid
>>> -H=0
>>> -w=8080
>>> -W=8443
>>> -m=192.168.2.0/24,193.239.104.0/22,217.199.204.10/32
>>> -p=tcp:216@SSH
>>> -q=1
>>> -A=0
>>> -U=ntopng
>>> -e
>>> 
>>> I have attached a log.txt, gzip compressed, which should give a good 
>>> overview of this hardware and current configuration. I really, really was 
>>> happy, if somewhat could point me to a problem with this server/ntopng.
>>> 
>>> svn info
>>> Path: .
>>> Working Copy Root Path: /usr/local/src/ntopng
>>> URL: 
>>> https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntopng
>>> 
>>> Repository Root: 
>>> https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop
>>> 
>>> Repository UUID: a02cd0c1-8e76-42e1-a119-56f9641475e2
>>> Revision: 7598
>>> Node Kind: directory
>>> Schedule: normal
>>> Last Changed Author: deri
>>> Last Changed Rev: 7597
>>> Last Changed Date: 2014-05-06 17:12:17 +0200 (Tue, 06 May 2014)
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot in advance
>>> 
>>> -Christian Rößner
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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