[Xymon] 3 vmstat procs and other issues

[Galen Johnson]

Ok...I fixed this by adding '-x tmpfs -x devtmpfs' to the df command.
Definitely something you may want to consider.  It was cluttering up my
disk graphs badly (especially on systems that had lots of users logged
in).

=G=

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation on the vmstat point...I feel much better now,
> I hadn't actually noticed the differences in the timestamps until you
> pointed it out.
>
> The FQDN was the issue with my missing tests.  They show up now.  Now I
> just need the df command to ignore tmpfs paths an I think I'll be good.
>
> =G=
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/5/2017 1:40 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> While I'm questioning things, I noticed that there are 3 vmstat calls
>>> run on the server every 5 minutes instead of the 1 that I would
>>> expect...Anyone else seeing that behavior?
>>>
>>> I'm running the Terabithia RPM (yes, I know there is a new release about
>>> to come out) on Centos 7.
>>>
>>>
>> This is actually normal. It's a side effect of the fact that those RPMs
>> fire the client off every 100s instead of every 5m. Although vmstat (and
>> anything launched the same way) is collecting info for the previous 5m,
>> it's doing it once for each client execution that occurs during that time
>> (3x). You end up with a rolling 5m average than a discrete 5m block when
>> $interval != $collectionperiod.
>>
>> I'm also not getting the disk column and most of the other local tests
>>> that I've come to expect, either (memory, cpu, files, etc).
>>>
>>>
>> FQDN issue possible here as well?
>>
>> -jc
>>
>>
>
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