Revision as of 16:22, 24 April 2007

Overview

Bandwidthd is a bandwidth trending tool. See http://bandwidthd.sf.net

You can gain access to the bandwidthd management page by selecting

NSTWUI > Networking > Monitors > bandwidthd.

Choose an interface to monitor, and start the process.

If you see that bandwidthd will not stay up, you should check your /var/log/messages log for any warnings.

PeteHoffswell has seen that running bandwidthd in it's default network of 0.0.0.0 can lead to a

bandwidthd IP_NUM is too low, dropping ip...
kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 9183 (bandwidthd)

followed by memory overflows and the killing of the bandwidthd process.

To fix, simply define the local networks with the -s directive in the NST bandwidthd page.

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 Bandwidthd is a bandwidth trending tool.  See http://bandwidthd.sf.net
-You can gain access to the bandwidthd management page by selecting NSTWUI > Networking > Monitors > bandwidthd.
+You can gain access to the bandwidthd management page by selecting
+ NSTWUI > Networking > Monitors > bandwidthd.
 Choose an interface to monitor, and start the process.