Read docs/FAQ - there are a bunch of entries on memory usage. Search the back traffic on this list...
-----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Simon Waters > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] Newbie: System sizing, memory use? > > > Hi, > > just trying out ntop. > > We have a traffic shaping bridge (RH9, ntop v.3.0) between our > network and the > Internet, very busy 512Kbps pipe for this office. > > Running ntop on this seems to work fine listening on the bridge Interface > except... > > It chews memory. > > Started with -b -z -n, and switched off rdd module, and it chews less and > spits rdd related messages ;) > > Is there any guidance anywhere in the documentation on how much memory a > simple ntop configuration should use for any set of statistics. > How long it > takes to stabilise? > > We have 3 x /24 we want to record for, one of these /24 it > considers local > (currently), and millions of clients as we run a handful of > webservers from > here, should I just kill the logging of client information? Must > I recompile > to shorten the purge of host information from memory? > > I'm concerned that if we kill of too much information, we'll lose > utility, > already in my 10 minutes before running out of memory sessions, I have a > question or two for our ISP. > > Even if we have to squeeze the data somewhat, ntop looks to be an obvious > choice for our network monitoring, so thanks to all involved. > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
