[afnog] ntop and swap space

[Hannigan, Martin]

How much physical memory does the machine have
and how much swap have you allocated? 

What version of ntop? I am seeing reference to a memory
leak, but I'm having trouble pinning down the specifics.

The ntop source tree is here:

http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html




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Martin Hannigan                         (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc.                          (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV                       Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan at verisign.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: afnog-bounces at afnog.org 
> [mailto:afnog-bounces at afnog.org]On Behalf
> Of NTAMBI STEVEN
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:57 AM
> To: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: [afnog] ntop and swap space
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I’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 … or so I think
> 
> Can any one help me figure out a solution for this?  Thanx in advance
> 
> Steven.
> 
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