Thank you, I was having the same problem. My DNS cache was 300MB, wich is impressive, since it had only been runing for 20 hours on our schools 2mb connection. Is there a way to limit which interfaces to check the DNS names for? Or to expire them after a certain amount of time?
Brian Gary Gatten wrote: > Don't know if it will help in your case, but the dnsCache.db file seems > to cause me trouble when it gets "big". Stop nTop, delete that file, > and fire it up again. Maybe it will help - if not you didn't really > hurt anything. > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Radu Constantinescu > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Ntop] Ntop 3.3 on FC4 or FC5 will crash after a while (10min > to XXdays) > > Ntop is a great tool. I use to have the 3.2 version > installed from a RPM on a Fedora 4 machine and that > one use to be kind of stable. > > Lately I got the latest stable version from > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ntop/ntop-3.3.tar.gz > and compiled that on Fedora 5 and Fedora 4 because I > found no RPM available. All dependencies solved and it > did compiled OK. > > I start Ntop with a command like: > ntop -u ntop -i eth1 --daemon --use-syslog=daemon > --no-promiscuous --no-fc > or > ntop -u ntop -i eth1 --use-syslog=daemon > --no-promiscuous --no-fc & > > Unfortunatelly it will stay up for a while (10 min to > xx days) and then will crash with an error similar to: > > FC4 crash > *** glibc detected *** ntop: free(): invalid pointer: > 0x089681f0 *** > ======= Backtrace: ========= > /lib/libc.so.6[0xe511e0] > /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x77)[0xe5172b] > /usr/local/lib/libntopreport-3.3(ntop_safefree+0x27)[0x7c082b] > /usr/local/lib/libntopreport-3.3(freeSession+0x124)[0x7d63f0] > /usr/local/lib/libntopreport-3.3(scanTimedoutTCPSessions+0x1dc)[0x7d699c > ] > /usr/local/lib/libntopreport-3.3(purgeIdleHosts+0x3bb)[0x7ba08f] > /usr/local/lib/libntopreport-3.3(scanIdleLoop+0x22f)[0x7c16e3] > /lib/libpthread.so.0[0x6fcbd4] > /lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x5e)[0xeb84fe] > ======= Memory map: ======== > > Any Ideas? > > Also 3.3 does look great but is slow over a satellite > connection compared to 3.2. > > Regards, > Radu > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ____________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > > > > <font size="1"> > <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in > 0in 1.0pt 0in'> > </div> > "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient > and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email > and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by > return email and delete this email from your system." > </font> > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > -- Brian Riffle System and Network Administrator Klamath Community College 7390 South 6th St Klamath Falls, OR 97603 Phone 541.880.2245 Fax 541.885.7758 _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
