Hi, could someone please make a comment: Am I doing something wrong or thats the way iftop should behave? Maybe any ideas how could I find where the problem is?
Martins.
------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Martins Dzelde" martins.dzelde@latrude.lv To: iftop-users@lists.beasts.org Cc: Subject: Re: [Iftop-users] List dead? Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:53:59 +0200
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:18:41 +0200, Paul Warren pdw@ex-parrot.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:41:24AM -0600, Jonathan Abbey wrote:
| Although I havent yet found how to work around the problem that the | traffic agreggates, ie, sums up and fills up all the memory for the | computer. May be someone knows a hint?
I haven't seen this. What operating system type and version are you running iftop on?
I assume you're running the very latest iftop from pdw?
It sounds vaguely familiar from the past...
Do you have a very large number of hosts on the network? It should forget about hosts once they fall out of the 60 second(?) window that it watches.
I was posting questions long,long time ago. About 'very large' - dont know - I have around 200 hosts on my network on a 32Mbit link, thats something but not very large. It would be good if iftop would forget about each connection after a time ( it could only keep the total traffic processed per host, that shouldnt take up too much memory). The problem seems to be that iftop saves all the connections (all hosts on all ports) proccessed and that surely summs up quickly. Should iftop drop the old traffic? btw, the freebsd box should be powerfull enough (P4, 1 Gb ram).
And the features saving a statistics offered by pat would be very good. The next thing would be a possibility to leave iftop running as a deamon, generating logs, logs for MRTG, etc. that would be great. But anyway, it is very usefull as it is.
Martins.
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