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Issues with memory not reporting correctly

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list Wesley Townley · Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:22:47 -0800 ·
Using Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 with Hobbit Client 4.2.0
Memory report:

Current status message follows:
red Mon Mar 2 13:15:37 PST 2009 - Memory CRITICAL

   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
red Physical     4294961768M       8192M 4294967229%
green Swap               1600M       8191M         19%

from swap -s:

total: 1616880k bytes allocated + 0k reserved = 1616880k used, 6771728k available


from vmstat 1 2

 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m8 m1 m1 rm   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 0 29220552 14454688 35 111 61 1 1 0 0  1  1  1 -0  401 1512 1627  1 1 97
 0 0 0 28939384 14052616 0 14 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  351 1128 1068  1 0 99

----

How can I fix the issue with the physical memory?


Thanks
Wes
list Mark Hinkle · Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:56:41 -0800 ·
It is my understanding that hobbit uses the output from the "free" 
command to compute this test. What does that report on your system? Hope 
this helps.

-- 
Mark L. Hinkle
user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid
list Wesley Townley · Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:06:35 -0800 ·
I can't find a free command on my Solaris 10 machine. I can see it is a C library. I looked in the hobbitclient-sunos.sh it seems to be using vmstat and swap -s


Thanks
Wes


From:
Mark Hinkle <user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid>
To:
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date:
03/02/2009 02:03 PM
Subject:
Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly
quoted from Mark Hinkle


It is my understanding that hobbit uses the output from the "free" command to compute this test. What does that report on your system? Hope this helps.

-- 
Mark L. Hinkle
user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid
list Jim Smith · Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:09:32 -0700 ·
I use "bb-memory.sh" from the old deadcat.net site which houses Big
Brother externals.  However, I'm not sure if the site still exists.

 
Jim Smith

SVHS

Little Rock
quoted from Wesley Townley

 
From: user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:07 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly

 
I can't find a free command on my Solaris 10 machine. I can see it is a
C library. I looked in the hobbitclient-sunos.sh it seems to be using
vmstat and swap -s 

Thanks Wes
 

From: 
Mark Hinkle <user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid> 
To: 
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
Date: 
03/02/2009 02:03 PM 
Subject: 
Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly

 
It is my understanding that hobbit uses the output from the "free" command to compute this test. What does that report on your system? Hope

this helps.

-- 
Mark L. Hinkle
user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid
list Jim Smith · Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:12:07 -0700 ·
Oops!  Never mind!  I don't have it running on my sole Solaris server!
I don't remember why, but it may be that it doesn't work on Solaris.
You might give it a whirl anyway.

 
Jim Smith
quoted from Jim Smith

 
From: Smith, Jim [mailto:user-dc30f243a817@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:10 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly

 
I use "bb-memory.sh" from the old deadcat.net site which houses Big
Brother externals.  However, I'm not sure if the site still exists.

 
Jim Smith

SVHS

Little Rock

 
From: user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:07 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly

 
I can't find a free command on my Solaris 10 machine. I can see it is a
C library. I looked in the hobbitclient-sunos.sh it seems to be using
vmstat and swap -s 

Thanks Wes
 
From: 
Mark Hinkle <user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid> 
To: 
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
Date: 
03/02/2009 02:03 PM 
Subject: 
Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly

 
It is my understanding that hobbit uses the output from the "free" command to compute this test. What does that report on your system? Hope

this helps.

-- 
Mark L. Hinkle
user-9816e24cee8c@xymon.invalid
list Henrik Størner · Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:42:03 +0100 ·
quoted from Wesley Townley
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:22:47PM -0800, user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid wrote:
Using Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 with Hobbit Client 4.2.0
Memory report:

Current status message follows:
red Mon Mar 2 13:15:37 PST 2009 - Memory CRITICAL

   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
red Physical     4294961768M       8192M 4294967229%
green Swap               1600M       8191M         19%
Could you try clicking on the "Client data" link on that status report
and check what is in the "[memory]" section ?

The "Used" value for Physical memory comes from the 5th number
of the line in the [memory] section.


Regards,
Henrik
list Wesley Townley · Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:52:40 -0800 ·
What's funny is that the 4294961768M is not in the client data at all. 
Here is the memory info from the client data:
[memory]
 0 0 0 29051224 14262736 369 2716 0 32 32 0 0 0 0 0  0  402 5016 1282  3 5 
92
[swap]
total: 1507312k bytes allocated + 0k reserved = 1507312k used, 6881296k 
available


Thanks
Wes


From:
Henrik =?unknown-8bit?Q?St=C3=B8rner?= <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
To:
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date:
03/04/2009 04:44 AM
quoted from Henrik Størner
Subject:
Re: [hobbit] Issues with memory not reporting correctly


On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:22:47PM -0800, user-4b9f25e7c931@xymon.invalid wrote:
Using Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 with Hobbit Client 4.2.0
Memory report:

Current status message follows:
red Mon Mar 2 13:15:37 PST 2009 - Memory CRITICAL

   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
red Physical     4294961768M       8192M 4294967229%
green Swap               1600M       8191M         19%
Could you try clicking on the "Client data" link on that status report
and check what is in the "[memory]" section ?

The "Used" value for Physical memory comes from the 5th number
of the line in the [memory] section.


Regards,
Henrik