[hobbit] Solaris memory reporting

Gary B. gmbfly98 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 21:36:27 CEST 2006


Thanks.


> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:27:35PM -0400, Gary B. wrote:
> > Curious thing I noticed today, with the 7-6-2006 client snapshot...  I
> > just compiled the hobbit client on a solaris 8 box, and everything is
> > working fine.  However, BB is reporting 83% swap usage (which is the
> > same value returned by swapdf), yet the Hobbit client is reporting
> > only 77% swap usage.
> >
> > The solaris machine has both a swap partition, as well as a swap file
> > (in /tmp).  What method does the Hobbit client use to determine swap
> > usage?  Since Hobbit reports more free swap than BB, I'm assuming that
> > means BB is only looking at the swap slice and not the combined swap
> > slice + swap file to generate the swap usage.
>
> Hobbit uses the command "/usr/sbin/swap -s" (see the
> client/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh script).
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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