From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 14:26:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF6E16A4CF for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:26:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82A9B43D55 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:26:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO cpe000103d44c07-cm000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) (mikej@69.193.222.195 with login) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 14:26:34 -0000 Received: from 207.219.213.162 (proxying for 172.16.150.50) (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej); by cpe000103d44c07-cm000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with HTTP; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:26:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <53082.207.219.213.162.1109687194.squirrel@207.219.213.162> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:26:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: clement@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Port: ntop-3.1_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:26:36 -0000 Hi, It seems that ntop is broken on freebsd, period. Version 3.0 would use all available CPU, and the http server would become unresponsive. This seems to have been fixed in the current 3.1 version, however there are other problems. After about an hour of packet collecting, i get these errors: Feb 28 14:31:00 sniffer ntop[5548]: **ERROR** Buffer too short @ pbuf.c:1363 (increase to at least 3) Packet collecting stops at this point: Dropped (libpcap) 617.2% 24,848,820 Dropped (ntop) 0.0% 0 Total Received (ntop) 4,025,915 Total Packets Processed 4,025,915 It does not matter if i use the --set-pcap-nonblocking or not. Actually, this option makes ntop take 100% CPU, it runs just fine without this option, but the same buffer problem comes up. This is an Athlon64 3000 machine, with 1GB ram. 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 24 11:27:25 EST 2005 amd64