[hobbit] Hobbit Memory is Yellow but it's just normal

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Tue Oct 16 00:12:39 CEST 2007


In your hobbit-clients.cfg, add *above* the DEFAULT:

HOST=yourhost
MEMPHYS 99 100
MEMACT 99 100

This will set the thresholds for that host so that you wont get yellow 
until 99% and red at 100%

-Charles


Frank Flynn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a server who's memory keeps going Yellow:
>
>    Mon Oct 15 14:50:27 PDT 2007 - Memory low
>
>    Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
>   green Physical           7820M       8055M         97%
>   yellow Actual             7341M       8055M         91%
>   green Swap                  0M       8055M          0%
>
> And so it is; these numbers do match the `free` numbers.  But it's not 
> really all being used, it's just the way Linux works.
>
> I'm really only using ~1.5 Gb of 8 and the rest is 'Slab' - which is 
> kept around by the kernel as a cache.  But I have no Swap used so 
> we're good.
>
> So how do I get Hobbit to see that and relax (not go to Yellow) until 
> we start using Swap?
>
> Frank
>
>
>
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