On Oct 21, "David Touitou" wrote: > Mike Hunter wrote: > > >>I guess faster CPU is still the answer ? > >>At least, kernel/NIC is not the problem. > > > >What OS are you using (you may have said in an earlier mail, sorry)? Both > >linux and freebsd have ways of turning up the network buffer size. > > FreeBSD 4.9-RC > > >See this post in the flow-tools list: > >http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/flow-tools/2003-February/001089.html > > I just stopped ntop and change the buffers as shown in the mail. > Of course, a lot less free RAM (showed with top). > > But ntop traffic stats are more and more funny... > 2500% lost packets just after launch. > And after 2 minutes : > Total 321,377 > Dropped by the kernel 770,577 [239.77 %]
That's extremely lame. I wonder if there's a problem with 4.9...do you have any way of testing this on 4.8? You may want to write to a freebsd mailing list.... The last thing I have to suggest is `rtprio`. > I've just noticed ntop only shows ONE thread doing "ps aux" or "top", is > that normal (build with ./configure on FreeBSD 4.9-RC). I think that ntop is single-threaded. Mike _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
