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    makesense
    last edited by Jun 9, 2010, 8:17 PM

    I see you use (or have used) ntop. How does it compare to bandwidthd?

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      Alan87i
      last edited by Jun 9, 2010, 11:32 PM

      Ntop is beyond basic, It charts everything. I have only checked it a few times as I have had little time to study up on it and all it's functions. I like B d for it's easy to read graphs and counter. And it's got just and only what I want to see at the top of the page.

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        makesense
        last edited by Jun 10, 2010, 1:12 AM Jun 10, 2010, 12:01 AM

        I changed a few settings for the config of Bwd. Then from the console,shelled out and did a chmod 666 (was 600)for the bandwidthd.core file in
        /usr/local/bandwidthd and so far no core dumps. It is not quite past the five hour max we have seen. But I usually get core dumps within 1 to 2 hours.
        Here's the settings:

        skip interval=6 (default)
        graph cutoff=1024 (default is 100)
        prom. on=checked
        output_cdf =unchecked
        recover_cdf=unchecked
        filter=no entry/blank/empty
        Draw Graphs = checked
        meta refresh = 333 (default is 150)

        :o

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          Alan87i
          last edited by Jun 10, 2010, 9:35 AM

          Setting the graph cut off too 100 stopped the core dumps. I have ran this on 4 different box's now and all but this machine I set the cut off to 5 ( Make it work + More accurate I figure). First time I have see this issue caused from the cut off setting. It's a 3 Gig cpu with 1 Gb of memory using 14 % at the most. I'm going to try 50 this morning and let it run all day.
          Will report back if it starts dumping again.

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            makesense
            last edited by Jun 10, 2010, 2:55 PM Jun 10, 2010, 2:51 PM

            ;D
            Good news. My core dumps are gone too. On the graph cutoff setting….How low can we go!?!
            I have dual XEON 2.4 and 2GB RAM using 4 Intel 82558 Pro/100 NICs
            RAID:
            Partition   Percent Capacity   Free   Used   Size
            /dev/aacd0s1a 0% 26.52 GB 124.98 MB 28.95 GB
            /dev/md0 1% 3.29 MB 28.00 KB 3.61 MB
            devfs 100% 0.00 KB 1.00 KB 1.00 KB
            devfs 100% 0.00 KB 1.00 KB 1.00 KB
            Totals :   0% 26.52 GB 125.01 MB 28.96 GB

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              Alan87i
              last edited by Jun 10, 2010, 11:53 PM

              I set the problem box to 50 for the cut off this morning and it has not core dumped all day.  Will try 25 tomorrow morning. My dell 280 is set @ 5 and has been for months. I wonder if the built in Nic on the IBM is the fault. Both have the same Gigabit dual lan card for the Lan and Opt1 interface. Should have bought 2 of those dells!!

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                makesense
                last edited by Jun 11, 2010, 3:14 AM

                The lower the beter. I'll keep bumping my ol' dell 2650 down and keep posting. Also saw in the expired bounty posts references to NIC sensitivity.  I don't use the onboard nics on the 2650. Went with two dual intel pro 100s. What's the CPU/ram in the 280?

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                  Alan87i
                  last edited by Jun 11, 2010, 9:37 AM

                  I tried 25 and had an instant core dump So I tried 40 and it dumped again . Will leave it at 50 I guess.
                  The 280 is a  3.2 and has 2 Gb of memory in it.
                  It's also running Lusca cache. And at the moment Ntop as well .And the new country Block package.  Reporting 49 % memory used.
                  Really impressed with that box.

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                    makesense
                    last edited by Jun 11, 2010, 5:29 PM

                    I have one at 20 and the other at 40. So far (3 hrs) and no dumps…....yet

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                      makesense
                      last edited by Jun 21, 2010, 2:57 PM

                      I have them both at 40 (plenty low enough) and no dumps. Hope this helps others

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