<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Punit,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it is ok since ovirt-engine is using loopback for its purposes, e.g. postgress databas access. Try to check netstat -putna | grep 127.0.0 to see how many things are attached to it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are interested in checking what is going on a bit more have a look @ this great how-to <a href="http://www.slashroot.in/find-network-traffic-and-bandwidth-usage-process-linux" class="">http://www.slashroot.in/find-network-traffic-and-bandwidth-usage-process-linux</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HTH </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martin Pavlik</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RHEV QE</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Jan 2015, at 02:24, Punit Dambiwal <<a href="mailto:hypunit@gmail.com" class="">hypunit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have noticed that the loop back interface has huge network packets sent and received...is it common or need to some tweaks.... </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Ovirt 3.5.1</div><div class="">2. Before ovirt engine installation...loop back address doesn't has that huge amount of packets sent/receive....</div><div class="">3. After Ovirt engine install it's keep increasing.....and in just 48 hours it reach to 35 GB...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">[root@ccr01 ~]# ifconfig</div><div class="">eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500</div><div class=""> inet 43.252.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 43.252.x.x</div><div class=""> ether 60:eb:69:82:0b:4c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)</div><div class=""> RX packets 6605350 bytes 6551029484 (6.1 GiB)</div><div class=""> RX errors 0 dropped 120622 overruns 0 frame 0</div><div class=""> TX packets 2155524 bytes 431348174 (411.3 MiB)</div><div class=""> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0</div><div class=""> device memory 0xdf6e0000-df700000</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500</div><div class=""> inet 10.10.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.10.0.255</div><div class=""> ether 60:eb:69:82:0b:4d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)</div><div class=""> RX packets 788160 bytes 133915292 (127.7 MiB)</div><div class=""> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0</div><div class=""> TX packets 546352 bytes 131672255 (125.5 MiB)</div><div class=""> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0</div><div class=""> device memory 0xdf660000-df680000</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536</div><div class=""> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0</div><div class=""> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)</div><div class=""> RX packets 84747311 bytes 40376482560 (37.6 GiB)</div><div class=""> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0</div><div class=""> TX packets 84747311 bytes 40376482560 (37.6 GiB)</div><div class=""> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[root@ccr01 ~]# w</div><div class=""> 09:23:07 up 2 days, 11:43, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.30, 0.31</div><div class="">USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT</div><div class="">root pts/0 09:16 3.00s 0.01s 0.00s w</div><div class="">[root@ccr01 ~]#</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Punit</div></div>
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