Stanley said... > Dear Folks, > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:19:49AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: > > Just FYI: > > > > Ntop 3.0, running on FreeBSD 5.3. Would like to move to > 3.1, but don't have > > the time at the moment. > > > > 3.0 != 3.1 on FreeBSD. > > You need Mr Strauss's patch (IMHO) to go to 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.x > (4.10-RELEASE for me).
And on 5.3? > With the patch, peace and tranquillity; without: any or all of, no > response to web requests, high CPU utilisation (>= 40% for 2 > x DS0 !), > _and_ instability. > > Your choices for FreeBSD are 3.0 or 3.1 + BMS540 (?). Well, for now, 3.0. I'll experiment with 3.1 when I have some time. > > As of 9:05 this morning - [ntop uptime: 31 days 16:34:32] > > > > Monitoring about 400 machines, talking over a T1. > > > > BTW, as Mr Strauss points out this is not a slag FreeBSD > issue. Ntop and > Nagios 2.0 (and perhaps MySql) struggle with the pthread lib. > (Nag 2.0 > suggests there is better performance from Linux thread > support [ports]. > When I tried this with a 2.2.9x Ntop the results were not good; don't > know for 2.x) I doubt the difference is enough to cause me to mix platforms. I like FBSD, and will suffer the consequences of that choice in the interest of keeping a coherent (to me) environment, even to the point of not putting Linux support from ports on a box when that's an option. Don't need to clutter my already overtaxed brain with Linuxisms. Not to slag Linux, you understand, it's just that, as Clint said, "A man's got to know his limitations." Kurt _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
