On Fri, 6 May 2005, Luca Deri wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joao, > why is the CPU a problem for you? Because you have little traffic to > analyze or because you expect a lighter CPU usage? How did you configure > ntop and where (topology, network speed etc)? Bearn in mind that ntop > has been designed (default) to monitor a LAN so if you have a WAN or a > large network you better configure properly. > > FreeBSD is definitively not the best OS in terms of threading (although > many other things work nicely and probably better than other similar > OSs). I have no experience on Sun+BSD, so I cannot really provide you a > more precise answer to your problem.
A littlebit of topic, but i wish to react on "not the best OS in terms of threading". (No, i don't want to start a religious war, but i'm just curious about this statement) Okay, maybe fbsd is not the best, but fbsd is very bussy implementing locking and removing gaint. For example a locking ip stack, locking nic drivers, etc etc. There are still many os'ses out there with a giant in the ip stack. You might have a nice threading application, but if even one thread is touching the ip stack you'll run into the giant lock and the other threads and/or pid's that need the stack have to wait. So i'm not quite sure what you mean with not the best OS for threads. Maybe linux is a littlebit ahead in this area? Bye, Mipam. _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
