[afnog] ntop and swap space

[Kabagambe Kenneth]

Antonio Godinho wrote:

>I had a similar problem with NTOP in that it would stop responding after 
>starting it in only a few seconds. It turns out that it needs quite a lot of 
>memory, I increased the memory and it worked fine. It depends on how much 
>traffic you are collecting as well.
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>Cheers,
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>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:47:55 +0100, Ivan Groenewald wrote
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>>sounds like a memory leak, try installing an older or newer version 
>>of ntop.
>>
>>ivan
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "NTAMBI STEVEN" <sntambi at one2net.co.ug>
>>To: <afnog at afnog.org>
>>Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:57 AM
>>Subject: [afnog] ntop and swap space
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I&#8217;m running ntop on  a BSD box (4.10-BETA FreeBSD 4.10-BETA #0: Thu
>>>Apr 15 23:24:00 EAT 2004).
>>>
>>>When I start it, it runs for about a minute then stops.
>>>Dmesg shows the following
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>swap_pager: out of swap space
>>>swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
>>>pid 74886 (ntop), uid 65534, was killed: out of swap space
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>When I increase the swap space the new PID is killed coz of the same
>>>reason! The other logs I have for ntop are the access logs whose
>>>information is not useful to the situation &#8230; or so I think
>>>
>>>Can any one help me figure out a solution for this?  Thanx in advance
>>>
>>>Steven.
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>Antonio Godinho
>B.Sc.,MCP, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
>Maputo
>Mozambique
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This worked for me.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html