On 5/29/08 4:38 PM, "Kevin Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> We have ntop v.3.3.5 running on a server. This server has had ntop
> running on it for quite a while (an earlier version, not sure which, 2.x
> most likely) when all of a sudden it started dying on us with no reason.
> I thought that it might be because I had set up a cron job to run tshark
> (wireshark) on the same interfaces to do 5-minute captures on the
> quarter-hours, but even disabling the cron had no effect. I also
> upgraded the ntop to the version it's at now, but it still dies for no
> apparent reason.
> 
> I set it up to do a level 5 debug trace, but could not see anything that
> was immediatly apparent from the stdout. Running in daemon mode had no
> effect, it dies after anywhere from 30 seconds to 20 minutes after being
> started.
> 
> The only questionable error on stdout is:
>  
>   **ERROR** Sanity check failed (2) [Low memory?]
> 
> but memory at the time that message was spit out was still about 300Mb
> with nothing from swap even touched. When it dies, it frees up about
> 30Mb of memory.
> 

Out of curiosity, have you done a memory test on that box?

http://www.memtest.org/

Snag and burn an iso and boot with it and see what happens....don't know
why, but that's my hunch ;)

James


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