On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Kurt Buff wrote:
>> 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 capture off of a 20-25Mbit cable line with a dual-core AMD X2 3600+
> system with 2GB RAM (1.9GHz per core).  The ntop process rarely gets
> above 25% CPU on a single core.  Most of the time it runs down in the
> single digits.  On our T1 (similar speed CPU), 1.5-2.0Mbits of traffic
> eats up a measly 3-4% of one of the CPU cores.
>
> The bigger issue is that if you muck with the default settings for RRD,
> it seems like RRD becomes extremely fragile and will fall over
> frequently.  Our ntop falls over at least once a day and we have a cron
> job that checks on it every 3 minutes and restarts it.

Wow. Mine had been running for several months, with no issues. Once I
got enough RAM in it, it even stopped corrupting the name resolution
database.
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