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 > -=-=-=- > Kevin Freels > Director of Information Technology > Sendmail, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510/594.5572 > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
