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Memory report faulty

list Vernon Everett
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:51:15 +0800
Message-Id: <user-9cbb0db410f5@xymon.invalid>

Don't think a reboot is going to fix this one for me.
We tried it, and it comes good for a few hours, then goes bad again.
Then it might come good again for some time, and then bad.
Very unpredictable in its behavior, which made me think there is a bug
somewhere, and was hoping there was a workaround published.

And rebooting a production server is not really a great idea. :-)

Cheers
      V


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Vernon Everett wrote:
Hi all

Another contract, another emial address. :-)
Hope you all had a good festive season.

Quick question.
Was there ever a resolution to this issue?
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/03/msg00036.html
Searched the archive, and couldn't find one.

To recap, this was where memory reports something bizzare, like this
   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
red Physical     4294961768M       8192M 4294967229%
green Swap               1600M       8191M         19%
Regards
      Vernon
I have the same problem on an aix server.
This is the output of the vmstat command.  As you can see, the avm column
is
'attached' to the next column:

System Configuration: lcpu=4 mem=6144MB
kthr     memory             page              faults        cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
 2  1 4295454056  5793   0   0   0  61   80   0  60 30162 1606  9  8 80  3

Not much that I can do, except rebooting the box :(


Stef