[afnog] ntop and swap space

[NTAMBI STEVEN]

I increased it from 200M to 680M. But it still stops before the swap space
is finished!

-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Godinho [mailto:antonio at nambu.uem.mz] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:21 PM
To: NTAMBI STEVEN
Subject: Re: [afnog] ntop and swap space

Did you try increasing the memory? When I had to increase memory, I had to 
increase it over 1.5GB since my server was collecting quite a lot of
traffic.

Cheers,

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:55:27 +0300, NTAMBI STEVEN wrote
> When I increased the space it still stops but without the error out 
> of swap space  ..... looking for the relevant logs
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonio Godinho [mailto:antonio at nambu.uem.mz] 
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:44 PM
> To: Ivan Groenewald; sntambi at one2net.co.ug; afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: [afnog] ntop and swap space
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:47:55 +0100, Ivan Groenewald wrote
> > 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
> > 
> > > 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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