Probably because it is running in the background. You will have to use the web site to access the NTOP stats when it is run as a daemon. I could be wrong about this, I don't use the deamon mode I run it as a service instead, but I am supposing it provides the same results.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Murriware [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 2, 2002 7:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop] Not able to make ntop work as a daemon notp works correctly on terminal mode but if I switch to daemon mode (-d), it reports "bye bye I'm becoming a daemon..." and then nothing else happens? Why? Thank you Maurizio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Baird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [Ntop] limiting amount of memory > I'm testing/using ntop at an ISP, monitoring the network traffic via the > netflow plugin, I keep up with each new daily snapshot (it crashes or > makes the machine become unresponsive still in this scenario), I have > 768MB of RAM/Dual Celeron 466, Linux 2.4.18 kernel it will last about a > day. Seems to crash many times while looking at the web interface. > > Regards > MIKE > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 07:11, Luca Deri wrote: > > Inaki Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Hi all: > > > > > > Is there a way, for ntop 2.0.99rc2 to limit the amount of memory to > > >use? In previous versions there was "-s hash-size", which has > > >disappeared. I've got a box with 256 Mb. of RAM, and ntop is using > > >+370Mb, with a hostsInfo.db file of 450 Mb. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > --Inaki. > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Ntop mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > I would like to start a thread about ntop usage. What I can tell you is: > > - bear in mind that ntop will monitor all the traffic it sees (many > > hosts = a lot of load = a lot of memory) > > - you must start ntop according to your needs (for instance have a look > > at -B and -j flags) > > - you don't often need to capture all the traffic for finding out what's > > going on. > > > > In your case Inaki, can you please tell us more about your environment? > > > > Cheers, Luca > > > > -- > > Luca Deri NETikos S.p.A. > > Via Matteucci 34/B 56124 Pisa, Italy. > > Ph. +39/050/968.639 Fax. +39/050/968.626 > > Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WWW: http://luca.ntop.org/ ICQ: 68183632 > > Hacker: someone who loves to program and enjoys being > > clever about it - Richard Stallman > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ntop mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop
