On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:46 -0600, Gary Gatten wrote:
> Can you post the Netflow configs from your router(s)?

See the attached files.

> I too had issues with CPU on 3.3.3 on FreeBSD.  I'm running 3.2.1 OK -
> but it segfaults and dies more than I'd like.  I will tell you from what
> I've seen if there are a bunch of flows arriving to nTop when the
> netflow interfaces are activated it does take a LONG time to catch up
> and does consume 100% CPU until it does - even on 3.2.1.  If you still
> have 3.3.x maybe turn it up when flow exports are light and see what
> happens.

I don't think this is it. I can try tonight, though, I suppose.

As another point of reference... I just disabled router2 (the one with
thousands of subinterfaces). To be clear, that left just router1 doing
netflows (and eth0, but the only traffic there is my browsing the ntop
HTTP interface); session tracking was off for all of this. Then, I
removed ntop 3.2 and installed ntop 3.3, which immediately maxed out the
CPU. I removed it and put 3.2 back and the CPU load is at most 5%.

I don't really know what it means, but in case this helps: According to
the traffic page, the total packets processed for router1 is 265,680 in
about 5 minutes.

Adding router2 back, still with ntop 3.2 and session tracking disabled,
brings me to about 10-15% CPU usage.

Richard
ip flow-cache timeout active 1

interface Multilink1
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 1
 ip route-cache flow

interface Multilink3
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 2
 ip route-cache flow

interface Multilink9
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 3
 ip route-cache flow

interface FastEthernet0/0
 description TO INTERNET
 ip route-cache flow

! This interface isn't used directly, just the VLAN subinterfaces.
interface FastEthernet1/0
 no ip address
 ip route-cache flow

interface FastEthernet1/0.1
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 4
 encapsulation dot1Q 1

interface FastEthernet1/0.2
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 5
 encapsulation dot1Q 2

interface FastEthernet1/0.3
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 6
 encapsulation dot1Q 3

interface FastEthernet1/0.4
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 7
 encapsulation dot1Q 4

! Unused Serial interfaces and Serials bonded into multilinks (above) omitted.

interface Serial2/0/20:1
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 8
 ip unnumbered FastEthernet0/0
 ip flow ingress

interface Serial2/0/21:1
 description TO CUSTOMER NETWORK 9
 ip flow ingress

! I tried using version 9 with ntop 3.2, but that might have made
! the crashing worse? I'm not sure.
ip flow-export version 5
ip flow-export destination NTOP_SERVER_IP 2055

ip flow-cache timeout active 1

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 description TO INTERNET
 ip route-cache flow

interface ATM4/0
 ip route-cache flow

! We have a couple thousand of these:
interface ATM4/0.1234
 description TO A CUSTOMER

! I tried using version 9 with ntop 3.2, but that might have made
! the crashing worse? I'm not sure.
ip flow-export version 5
ip flow-export destination NTOP_SERVER_IP 2055

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