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MEMPHYS went nuts

list Ralph Mitchell
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:27:03 -0500
Message-Id: <user-797b9fefdf20@xymon.invalid>

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Jaime Kikpole <user-c575ba5bb612@xymon.invalid>wrote:
On Sunday, December 20, 2009, Xymon User in Richmond
<user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Any chance the kernel
or related components have been updated since the last previous reboot
and/or since the Xymon build, and that this reboot loaded the changes?
Not a bad question, but no.  There have been no changes in the kernel
or OS for a little while now.  In fact I am hoping to have a chance to
do an update in about two weeks.

The system did reboot unexpectedly, though.  I wouldn't have expected
that to have an effect.  What do you think?

I tried a "controlled" restate just now via shutdown -r now.  After
giving the systema few minutes to talk to itself, it is still
reporting strangely high numbers.

Would it make sense to pkg_delete the Xymon daemon on the observed
host and reinstall it?  Or could that make things worse?
If you click through the "client data available" link, you'll see this near
the top:

     [meminfo]
     Total:4084
     Free:6920
     [swapinfo]
     Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
     /dev/da0s1b       4194304        0  4194304     0%


That "Total:4084" is supposed to be the total physical memory in the system,
if I'm reading the freebsd-meminfo.c source correctly.  If you have the
xymon source, that's under the "client" directory.

If that system is supposed to have 8G of memory, I think the kernel may not
be seeing half of it...

Ralph Mitchell