All, I'm running an ntop installation on a box with the following stats:
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz real memory = 2138308608 (2039 MB) avail memory = 2087510016 (1990 MB) rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> <---------------------------- numbered interface fxp0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) Pro/100 VE Ethernet> <-------un-numbered, monitoring interface I'm running ntop 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 6.2 Stable, and I've placed the unnumbered interface on a monitor port on an HP switch between the firewall and our backbone switch. We've just implemented a DS3, and we had a huge spike in traffic this morning, where the incoming data was over 20mbits/sec, for about 10 minutes, and then ntop fell over - stopped responding to http requests, though it showed as a running process - and I rebooted the box to bring it back to life. I don't know that the two are actually related, but it is suspicious, though the box had been running for several month - the previous reboot was due to some patching I did. So, a couple of questions: 1) Is it likely that ntop would fall over under that kind of load, or should it simply have started dropping packets? 2) Would a beefier box have allowed it to keep up with this load? I have a png of the hourly graph showing the gap, if that's of any interest. Thanks, Kurt _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
