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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yeah it is not a zone there are all sorts of annoyances when using a zone and you do not have access to root. I will take a look at the article but it may not answer my question of why Xymon is doing what it is doing. ‘top’ also reports the same thing as swap –s, not that is any guarantee of accuracy for such an old tool. ‘top’ is still one of my favorite tools although I wouldn’t mind having the multi-cpu version that I see running on my hp-ux boxes running on Solaris.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gore, David W (David)<br><b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Solaris and swap is tricky to nail down, specifically because different commands will report different values, by calculating the values in different ways.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You need to choose your commands carefully, depending on what value you need to know.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>This might help explain things.<br><a href="http://www.f3partners.com/blog/bid/49584/Solaris-Swap-Q-A">http://www.f3partners.com/blog/bid/49584/Solaris-Swap-Q-A</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>It all becomes rather fuzzy when you consider what ZFS is doing in your memory.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also, in a zone, all bets are off.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Caps in particular, on memory or swap, can completely muddy the water.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the checks within the zone, will show the max available as being the capped value.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>However when you interrogate the kernel for amount free, it returns what the kernel can see. And the kernel can see everything, because it exists in the global zone.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vernon<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>P.S. WARNING: Thinking too hard about this can cause your brain to melt. :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 27 June 2013 00:38, Gore, David W (David) <<a href="mailto:david.gore@verizon.com" target="_blank">david.gore@verizon.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Wed Jun 26 16:26:48 GMT 2013 - Memory low<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Memory Used Total Percentage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>yellow Physical 23355M 24576M 95%<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>green Swap 106M 35913M 0%<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>From the client data:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>[swap]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>total: 18459352k bytes allocated + 3036456k reserved = 21495808k used, 32308920k available<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I would expect to see the 21495808k used number?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Where is it getting the 106M number? Anyone else seen this on Solaris? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>~David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Xymon mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon" target="_blank">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>- General George Patton<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>