Hi, Yesterday we upgraded a server to run ntop-3.3.10. After letting the system run over night I found that ntop had multiple instances running. The systems performance was degraded severely with a load average of 18.89. Has anyone else seen this type of an issue and if so were you able to correct the problem? Why is ntop spawning the extra processes?
We are running Freebsd 6.3 release with patches. Below are lines cut from a top command. ntop problem |-+= 83294 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 00419 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 01824 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 06308 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 22994 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 28821 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 32621 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 36981 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 43051 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 45426 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 50496 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 58489 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 71660 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 86425 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 93937 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 96620 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | |--- 97587 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 | \--- 97589 nobody /usr/local/bin/ntop -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 last pid: 10403; load averages: 20.10, 19.46, 18.89 up 12+21:00:30 07:19:39 78 processes: 21 running, 57 sleeping CPU states: 11.3% user, 0.0% nice, 87.5% system, 1.2% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 252M Active, 40M Inact, 101M Wired, 16M Cache, 58M Buf, 65M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 170M Used, 1878M Free, 8% Inuse PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 86425 nobody 1 127 0 74100K 62532K RUN 16:53 4.20% ntop 28821 nobody 1 126 0 74220K 43680K RUN 59:37 4.15% ntop 32621 nobody 1 126 0 74220K 43724K RUN 55:02 4.10% ntop 1824 nobody 1 127 0 74100K 64672K RUN 6:31 4.10% ntop 36981 nobody 1 126 0 74220K 44020K RUN 50:40 4.05% ntop 22994 nobody 1 126 0 74220K 43280K RUN 68:32 4.00% ntop 43051 nobody 1 125 0 74148K 55048K RUN 45:16 4.00% ntop 45426 nobody 1 127 0 74148K 64908K RUN 43:19 4.00% ntop 58489 nobody 1 125 0 74100K 53336K RUN 34:15 4.00% ntop 96620 nobody 1 126 0 74100K 62704K RUN 10:12 4.00% ntop 71660 nobody 1 126 0 74100K 59364K RUN 25:54 3.96% ntop 97589 nobody 1 126 0 74100K 63708K RUN 9:25 3.96% ntop 419 nobody 1 126 0 74100K 63536K RUN 7:26 3.96% ntop 50496 nobody 1 126 0 74100K 61288K RUN 39:38 3.86% ntop 93937 nobody 1 125 0 68336K 37740K RUN 161:01 3.81% ntop 6308 nobody 1 124 0 68336K 38088K RUN 106:44 3.81% ntop 97587 nobody 1 125 0 74100K 63708K RUN 9:26 3.76% ntop Thanks Phillip Lynn _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list Ntop@unipi.it http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
