Hi,

working backwards from ntop v3.1 due to HIGH CPU usage and now on pre-packaged 
v3.0 build.  I have included some host info and my start-up (with output).

You will notice, from my 'top' monitoring that Memory is running as high as 
1266Mb but, I started only 318 Mb 24 hours prior !  Is this an intended effect 
or some process gone awry ?

Finally, is there some switch I can enable to limit this memory growth as we 
are looking to deploy this on a host running a dedicated application that has 
some 'visibility' to our Organization and, don't wish to impact it.

"# uname -a
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
# isainfo -k
sparcv9

ntop -P /usr/local/share/ntop -u ntop -c
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL)
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Configured on Jun 13 2004  5:52:30, built on Jun 13 
2004 06:56:02.
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Initializing ntop
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  **WARNING** Truncated network size (device hme0) to 
1024 hosts (real netmask 255.255.252.0)
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Checking hme0 for additional devices
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Resetting traffic statistics for device hme0
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  DLT: Device 0 [hme0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Initializing gdbm databases
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  Now running as requested user 'ntop' (100:100)
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: Loading MAC address table.
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: Loading newer file 
'/usr/local/etc/ntop/specialMAC.txt.gz'
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: ...found 61 lines
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: ...loaded 59 records
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file
Tue May 03 16:09:24 2005  VENDOR: Loading newer file 
'/usr/local/etc/ntop/oui.txt.gz'
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  VENDOR: ...found 44580 lines
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  VENDOR: ...loaded 7231 records
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  OSFP: Checking for OS fingerprint table file
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  OSFP: Loading file 
'/usr/local/etc/ntop/etter.passive.os.fp.gz'
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  ASN: Checking for Autonomous System Number table file
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  **WARNING** ASN: Unable to open file 'AS-list.txt'
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  I18N: This instance of ntop does not support multiple 
languages
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  IP2CC: Checking for IP address <-> Country Code 
mapping file
Tue May 03 16:09:27 2005  IP2CC: Loading file 
'/usr/local/etc/ntop/p2c.opt.table.gz'
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  IP2CC: ...found 52395 lines
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  GDVERCHK: Guessing at libgd version
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  GDVERCHK: ... as 2.0.21+
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Initializing external applications
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Initializing semaphores, mutexes and threads
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  NOTE: atfork() handler registered for mutexes, rc 0
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (4) for network packet 
analyser
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Packet processor thread running...
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (5) for fingerprinting
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (6) for idle hosts 
detection
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (7) for DNS address 
resolution
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Calling plugin start functions (if any)
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Sniffying...
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  INIT: Created pid file 
(/usr/local/share/ntop/ntop.pid)
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Listening on [hme0]
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Now running as requested user 'ntop' (100:100)
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Loading Plugins
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Searching for plugins in /usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  ICMP: Welcome to icmpWatchPlugin. (C) 1999-2004 by 
Luca Deri
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  LASTSEEN: Welcome to LastSeenWatchPlugin. (C) 1999 by 
Andrea Marangoni
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  NETFLOW: Welcome to NetFlow.(C) 2002-04 by Luca Deri
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  PDA: Welcome to PDAPlugin. (C) 2001-2004 by L.Deri 
and W.Brock
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **WARNING** Unable to load plugin 
'/usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins/rrdPlugin.so'
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **WARNING** Message is 'ld.so.1: ntop: fatal: 
relocation error: file /usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins/rrdPlugin.so: symbol 
rrd_clear_error: referenced symbol not found'
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  SNMP: Welcome to snmpPlugin. (C) 2004 by F.Fusco and 
G.Giardina
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **WARNING** Plugin 'snmpPlugin.so' discarded: 
compiled for a different ntop version
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **WARNING** Expected ntop version '3.1', actual 
plugin ntop version '3.0'.
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  SFLOW: Welcome to sFlowPlugin. (C) 2002-04 by Luca 
Deri
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  XML: Welcome to xmldump plugin. (C) 2003-2004 by 
Burton Strauss
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  NFS: Welcome to nfsWatchPlugin. (C) 1999-2004 by Luca 
Deri
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  Calling plugin start functions (if any)
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  SSL is present but https is disabled: use -W <https 
port> for enabling it
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Fingerprint scan thread running...
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: 
**********************PRIVACY**NOTICE**********************
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Idle host scan thread running...
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  THREADMGMT: Address resolution thread running...
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * ntop instances may record individually 
identifiable     *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * information on a remote system as part of 
the version   *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * check.                                      
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: *                                             
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * You may request - via the 
--skip-version-check option   *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * that this check be skipped and that no 
individually     *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * identifiable information be recorded.       
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: *                                             
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * In general, we ask you to permit this check 
because it  *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * benefits both the users and developers of 
ntop.         *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: *                                             
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: * Review the man ntop page for more 
information.          *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: *                                             
            *
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: 
**********************PRIVACY**NOTICE**********************
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: Checking current ntop version at 
version.ntop.org/version.xml
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **ERROR** CHKVER: Unable to connect socket: Network 
is unreachable(128)
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  CHKVER: Checking current ntop version at 
www.burtonstrauss.com/version.xml
Tue May 03 16:09:30 2005  **ERROR** CHKVER: Unable to connect socket: Network 
is unreachable(128)
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  Admin user password has been set
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  Note: Reporting device initally set to 0 [hme0] 
(merged)
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  INITWEB: Initializing web server
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  INITWEB: Initializing tcp/ip socket connections for 
web server
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  INITWEB: Initialized socket, port 3000, address (any)
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  INITWEB: Waiting for HTTP connections on port 3000
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  INITWEB: Starting web server
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (10) for web server
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  THREADMGMT: web connections thread (675) started...
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  THREADMGMT: Started thread (11) for network packet 
sniffing on hme0
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  THREADMGMT: pcap dispatch thread running...
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  Note: SIGPIPE handler set (ignore)
Tue May 03 16:09:53 2005  WEB: ntop's web server is now processing requests
Tue May 03 16:24:50 2005  NOTE: -L | --use-syslog=facility not specified, child 
processes will log to the default (24).

Top OutPut after 2 days running
===============================
last pid:   974;  load averages:  1.09,  1.07,  1.07                   08:31:00
37 processes:  35 sleeping, 2 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 49.3% user,  1.9% kernel, 48.8% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 1152M real, 17M free, 1337M swap in use, 1555M swap free
May  4 21:30:44 Lab06 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: Agent snmpd appeared dead but 
responded to ping
   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
   675 ntop      10   0    0 1266M  956M cpu/1   42.5H 49.40% ntop       ** 
NOTE Memory !! **
   680 root       1  58    0 2632K  600K cpu/0    4:49  0.10% top"

Thanks,

John Wilson
Descartes Systems Group
519.746.6114 x2544
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