Hi Punit, 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.
If you are interested in checking what is going on a bit more have a look @ this great how-to http://www.slashroot.in/find-network-traffic-and-bandwidth-usage-process-linux <http://www.slashroot.in/find-network-traffic-and-bandwidth-usage-process-linux> HTH Martin Pavlik RHEV QE > On 26 Jan 2015, at 02:24, Punit Dambiwal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have noticed that the loop back interface has huge network packets sent and > received...is it common or need to some tweaks.... > > 1. Ovirt 3.5.1 > 2. Before ovirt engine installation...loop back address doesn't has that huge > amount of packets sent/receive.... > 3. After Ovirt engine install it's keep increasing.....and in just 48 hours > it reach to 35 GB... > > [root@ccr01 ~]# ifconfig > eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 43.252.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 43.252.x.x > ether 60:eb:69:82:0b:4c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 6605350 bytes 6551029484 (6.1 GiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 120622 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 2155524 bytes 431348174 (411.3 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > device memory 0xdf6e0000-df700000 > > eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.10.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.10.0.255 > ether 60:eb:69:82:0b:4d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 788160 bytes 133915292 (127.7 MiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 546352 bytes 131672255 (125.5 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > device memory 0xdf660000-df680000 > > lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) > RX packets 84747311 bytes 40376482560 (37.6 GiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 84747311 bytes 40376482560 (37.6 GiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > [root@ccr01 ~]# w > 09:23:07 up 2 days, 11:43, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.30, 0.31 > USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > root pts/0 09:16 3.00s 0.01s 0.00s w > [root@ccr01 ~]# > > Thanks, > Punit > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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