All,
Well it happened again. So I ran gdb on the ntop process that was
continually in the run
state. It looks like it was spawned off to handle a web request then
never died. Would
the sslwatchdog help this? We are going try using sslwatchdog. If anyone
has any ideas let us know.
gdb /usr/local/bin/ntop 22014
22014 nobody 1 132 0 73752K 69232K RUN 20:43 60.40% ntop
1892 nobody 4 20 0 73840K 69356K kserel 14:04 0.00% ntop
(gdb) bt
#0 0x2864f22a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#1 0x2864f1de in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#2 0x286589ee in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#3 0x2864c308 in fork () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#4 0x280b0e26 in handleHTTPrequest (from=
{hostFamily = 2, addr = {_hostIp4Address = {s_addr = 2130706433},
_hostIp6Address = {__u6_addr = {__u6_addr8 =
"\001\000\000\177\001?\005(J?d(?\002\000", __u6_addr16 = {1, 32512,
46081, 10245, 45130, 10340, 680, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {2130706433,
671462401, 677687370, 680}}}}}) at http.c:2619
#5 0x280f1209 in handleSingleWebConnection (fdmask=0xbf6fbcf4) at
webInterface.c:8747
#6 0x280f1679 in handleWebConnections (notUsed=0x0) at webInterface.c:8599
#7 0x28652de9 in pthread_create () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2
#8 0x28a88b2b in _ctx_start () from /lib/libc.so.6
Thank You
Phillip Lynn
Phillip Lynn wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the offer of help . We do not have a cron job for ntop. We
> are starting ntop with the following args:
> " -ivr1 -ndLM -W 0 -w 127.0.0.1:3000 ".
>
> Thank You
> Phillip Lynn
>
>
> Gary Gatten wrote:
>
>> Hello, I tried a dev version of 3.3.10 on FBSD 6.0 and had various
>> issues, but nothing like it spawning multiple instances on its own. In
>> fact it usually will die if you try to run multiple instances without
>> the correct config - it tries to open th db's rw anf they're already
>> open so it aborts and exits.
>>
>> Do you have a cron job or something starting ntop? What are your ntop
>> args and prefs? Since I have FBSD ill try to help as much as possible.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wed May 27 07:55:15 2009
>> Subject: [Ntop] ntop problem
>>
>> 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
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