Know your network - it's a standard mantra re ntop. Because ntop is subject to the whims, ebbs and flows of the activities of your hosts, it's ALWAYS possible to exceed available storage and memory.
Know your network and filter to what you need to monitor. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Toby Kraft > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] Re: 3GB disk space consumed every time Ntop restarted > -resolved, I hope.. > > > Toby Kraft <Toby_Kraft <at> ksainc.com> writes: > > > > > Okay, I've installed Ntop and it's working as > expected/documented. I have > > defined an RRDPlugin filter to limit host storage to 10.* and > 66.248.* networks > > at the site. Yes, there are a lot of hosts in the 10.* network > and it takes > > about 3Gb of space to store the rrd's. The problem is - when I > restart Ntop, > > another 3Gb of disk space gets consumed! > ...snip > > Today I discover that disk space is down to 2GB left - 17GB > consumed since I > posted this issue on the 22nd. I stopped ntop (service ntop > stop) and deleted > the /var/ntop/rrd directory to free up space. I got back > everything all the way > back to the 29GB free I had when I started running Ntop. I > concluded that the > rrd filter of 10.* is way too big (16million possible hosts) and > changed it down > to 10.100.* (64,000 possible hosts). I seems to be behaving now > and I did a > couple of restarts and didn't see any disk used between them. so > I guess that > will just be a mystery. > > The /var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/eth1/hosts directory is now 30Mb or > so and holding > steady. > > Moral of the story - if you enable the rrdPlugin, be sure to set > a filter to > limit the hosts to the minimum network segment you need. > > Thanks, > > Toby > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
