On 20/01/2011 06:42, Peter Haag wrote:
> Hmm .. Have you tried to get in contact with the FreeBSD Perl maintainers?
> NfSen itself uses everywhere pretty standard Perl without
> any specials ...
>
For what is worth, I have nfsen working fine (only 12 days uptime at the
moment as its a newish box, 3 sources, 2 netflow (6500) one sflow (had
compiled from http://www.inmon.com/bin/InMon_Agent-6_4.tgz) about 700M
traffic total) on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2
[root@seaurchin ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD seaurchin.namesco.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon
Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[root@seaurchin ~]# pkg_info -Ix perl
perl-5.10.1_3 Practical Extraction and Report Language
[root@seaurchin ~]# pkg_info -Ix nfsen
nfsen-1.3.2_1 Web based frontend to nfdump netflow collector
[root@seaurchin ~]# pkg_info -Ix nfdump
nfdump-1.6.1 Command-line tools to collect and process NetFlow data
[root@seaurchin ~]# more /var/db/ports/perl/options
# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# No user-servicable parts inside!
# Options for perl-5.10.1_3
_OPTIONS_READ=perl-5.10.1_3
WITHOUT_DEBUGGING=true
WITHOUT_GDBM=true
WITHOUT_PERL_MALLOC=true
WITH_PERL_64BITINT=true
WITHOUT_THREADS=true
WITHOUT_MULTIPLICITY=true
WITHOUT_SUIDPERL=true
WITHOUT_SITECUSTOMIZE=true
WITH_USE_PERL=true
and from perl -V
*Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
USE_64_BIT_ALL
USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
*Not sure how useful a "works for me" is but thought i would share.
Vince
> - Peter
>
> On 1/19/11 23:00, Benno Overeinder wrote:
>> On 01/19/2011 07:34 PM, Eduardo wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Benno Overeinder <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I did increase the period to save log file to two weeks. Since then,
>>>> the frequency of nfsend dying decreased (once in a couple of weeks)...
>>>> But that could be coincidence.
>>>
>>> I did not see that in the nfsen.conf file ... where do you set that up
>>> ? which log file are you referring to ? debug.log ? (or are you
>>> referring to the flows itself ? for that I have 600GB or 60 days ).
>> Sorry, I was not clear indeed. I was referring to the flows itself. I
>> started out with 48 hours and nfsend crashed every 2 or 3 days. Then
>> increased the period to save to 2 weeks and the frequency nfsend crashed
>> dropped. But again, this could be coincidence.
>>
>>> Tonight I will replace the 5.8.9_4 for the 5.12 version and recompile
>>> everything again ... will see... it seems that 5.8.9_4 is a bit more
>>> stable than 5.10.
>>>
>>> Before I was running this on FreeBSD 7.3 and it was a lot more stable
>>> ... it often run for months before dying... maybe on the 8.2 version
>>> will be better.
>> I will keep a close look on my debug.log, and post the last log messages
>> written by nfsend if crashes again. Maybe this will give the developers
>> some idea of what is going on.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -- Benno
>>
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