[afnog] ntop and swap space

[NTAMBI STEVEN]

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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