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Xymon reports excessive memory usage on 1 SLES 11 host

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:29:30 +0000 (UTC)
Message-Id: <ie8njq$c4e$user-e356fad9864f@xymon.invalid>

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:16:20 +0100, Carl Melgaard wrote:
Could you show me the client data behind this report? Assuming you have
the "hostdata" task running, it should be available from the historical
status log via the "Client data available" link near the bottom of the
page.

It is the "[free]" section that is interesting for the memory report.
Here are two separate [free] sections (from history), that resulted in
red alerts:

[free]
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:       3921396    3894772      26624          0     302132  3887292 -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509187332    4216048 Swap:     2104472        904    2103568

- and

[free]
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:       3921396    3851576      69820          0     319192  3903296 -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509111072    4292308 Swap:     2104472        904    2103568
I have to plead "not guilty" on behalf of Xymon, then. The data reported by "free" in the "+/- buffers/cache" line is obviously bogus - but it is
what Xymon uses for the "Actual" memory calculations. If Xymon gets bogus data, then you will also have bogus results.


Regards,
Henrik