[hobbit] Out of range memory report

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Aug 3 12:49:44 CEST 2006


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Colin Spargo wrote:
> I got this in the "memory" column for a Solaris 8 host this morning, which 
> caused it to go red (even though i have the threshold set to 101).
> 
>  Thu Aug 3 09:11:17 BST 2006 - Memory CRITICAL
>    Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
> red Physical     4294955003M     131072M 4294967287%
> green Swap              40973M     144024M         28%
> 
> 
> That physical memory calculation is obviously incorrect!

Yep.

> This only happened once, then it went back to normal. The "hostdata" that 
> was saved at the time of the alert had the following memory data:
> 
> [memory]
>  0 0 0 211046168 146806184 744 6249 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 2692 436955 11454 8 6 86
> 
> That looks fine to me. I can't see how it could have taken those values 
> and got that bizzare total for memory.

Could you send me the [prtconf], [swap] and [memory] sections from
that hostdata file?

Regards,
Henrik




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