ntop on FreeBSD 5.4ish and threading

[Gianmarco Giovannelli]

At 17.45 07/05/2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:
 >On Sat, May 7, 2005 11:20 am, Joao Barros said:
 >> Hi all,
 >>
 >>
 >> I recently tried ntop on FreeBSD 5.4 RC3 and RC4 and was disappointed
 >> with the problems I bumped into. I reported this to ntop's developers
 >> mailing list and a few coments about FreeBSD threading came up. It would
 >> be interesting if someone could take a look at the thread I started:
 >> http://listgateway.unipi.it/pipermail/ntop/2005-May/010397.html
 >>
 >>
 >> My thanks in advance,
 >
 >Ntop is badly broken on FreeBSD, has been for a while. I reported this a
 >long time ago to the port maintainers, but nothing. It should be removed
 >from the ports tree.

I'd like to pointed out that the author of ntop have now a freebsd (5.x) 
box on which he could make some test and the latest version is running 
quite smoothly here, at least it doesn't hangs anymore...
The box is able to capture the mirrors traffic generated by two juniper M7 
loosing not more than 10% of the packets on aggregated traffic. The cpu 
load is around 20% and the box is a P4 3ghz 1gb ram with intel fxp cards.

The packet loss is due (according to Luca statement) to our threads 
implementation and it should not happens having soo much free cpu :-)

The version is running here is:

Report created on Sat May 7 18:29:50 2005 [ntop uptime: 8 days 7:35:42]
Generated by <http://www.ntop.org/>ntop v.3.1.1 MT (SSL) 
[i386-unknown-freebsd5.3]© 1998-2005 by <mailto:deri at ntop.org>Luca Deri, 
built: Apr 20 2005 17:28:01.
Listening on [fxp2,Consiag] for all packets (i.e. without a filtering 
expression)
Web reports include only interface "fxp2"