[afnog] NTOP

[Scott Weeks]

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From: "Antonio Godinho" <antonio at uem.mz>

> Is there a way of running ntop in such a way that it does
> not consume all  the memory and then crashes if the
> traffic is too high? I have noticed that  it runs fine and
> collects data in small networks but once I hook it up with
> a high traffic network it just runs for a few seconds,
> consumes all memory  and then crashes! The machine I use
> has a 1GB of RAM and that is totally  consumed by Ntop.


There're many things on by default you can turn off.  See
the documentation.  I had this happen and I began turning
off things one at a time until I got a stable box.  I then
began to play the swap game.  "If I want this, what do I
need to turn off to keep it stable?"

I did, however, dedicate an entire box to the task.  The
statistics are invaluable.

scott