Kevin
in what setup are you running ntop? WAN perhaps? What is the exact CLI  
command you're using? Can you please start it from shell and add -K -t  
6 and send the log.

Thanks Luca

On May 30, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Kevin Freels wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> We have ntop v.3.3.5 running on a server. This server has had ntop
> running on it for quite a while (an earlier version, not sure which,  
> 2.x
> most likely) when all of a sudden it started dying on us with no  
> reason.
> I thought that it might be because I had set up a cron job to run  
> tshark
> (wireshark) on the same interfaces to do 5-minute captures on the
> quarter-hours, but even disabling the cron had no effect. I also
> upgraded the ntop to the version it's at now, but it still dies for no
> apparent reason.
>
> I set it up to do a level 5 debug trace, but could not see anything  
> that
> was immediatly apparent from the stdout. Running in daemon mode had no
> effect, it dies after anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes after  
> being
> started.
>
> The only questionable error on stdout is:
>
>  **ERROR** Sanity check failed (2) [Low memory?]
>
> but memory at the time that message was spit out was still about 300Mb
> with nothing from swap even touched. When it dies, it frees up about
> 30Mb of memory.
>
> I also saw a few of these, but they never seem to coincide with the
> crash:
>
>  *ERROR** NULL host detected
>
> Things I tried that did *not* fix the problem:
> -x, I set it to 4096
> -M, multiple vs. single interfaces
> -s, no-promiscuous
> -u, (ran as root and "nobody")
> -c, host tracking
>
> The box is a Fedora Core 7, 2/6 kernel. 1Gb memory with 2Gb swap. Tons
> of disk space.
>
> Any hints? Beuller?
>
> Thanks, as always.
>
> ....k
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