I moved the box to a very lightly used segment and the problem still
happened.  But the one production box keeps up with whatever you through
at it.

Shane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aristeu Gil Alves Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ntop] FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10


> I have one similar problem with FreeBSD 5.x and 4.x. Ntop works fine
> one or two days when it suddenly gets a very high  CPU usage and the
> daemon stops responding.
>
> I've did some verification with ktrace/kdump in this high CPU
> situation, and the results (filtered) where
>
> #ktrace -p <NTOP PID>
>
> # kdump -l | grep files
>  20703 ntop     RET   accept -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   accept -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   accept -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   socket -1 errno 24 Too many open files
>  20703 ntop     RET   accept -1 errno 24 Too many open files
> (...)
>
> I've did some readjusting on FreeBSD kernel variables (kern.maxfiles,
> kern.maxfilesperproc) but the problem still persists.
> Even with maxfiles and maxfilesperproc adjusted to 60000, when
> kern.openfiles gets ~1024, ntop goes to the scenario described.
> Do I need to adjust maxusers too (now its 32, a reasonable number)?
> Any tips are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> --Aristeu
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Luca Deri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10
>
>
> > Shane,
> > I spent quite some with with FreeBSD 5.x this week. All I can tell
> you
> > is that there are major threads problem on your platform (at least
> on
> > 5.x). I have now fixed (most of/all) the problems and ntop work
> smoothly
> > unless you use the libc_r that bugged (more than the pthread library
> > that's bugged too). Please check the ntop code that's on CVS on 4.x
> and
> > let us know whether we need to patch the code.
> >
> > Thanks, Luca
> >
> > shane mullins wrote:
> >
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >    We have a FreeBSD box running 4.9 and ntop 3.0, 550 Mhz, 640 MB
> Ram,
> > >Ide hard disk.  Runs great and monitors a busy sement.  We have
> another
> > >FreeBSD box running 4.10, 900 Mhz CPU, 1 Gig ram, Raid 5 and ntop
> 4.10.
> > >ntop runs fine for awhile on this box and then it just stops.
> Should, I
> > >just give up *BSD on my ntop boxes and run linux on my ntop boxes?
> > >Nothing wrong with linux, I just know BSD.  Or does FreeBSD support
> ntop
> > >3.1 better?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Shane
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > -- 
> > Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://luca.ntop.org/
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> > clever about it - Richard Stallman
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