[Xymon] Actual and physical

[Paul.A.Gallegos at wellsfargo.com]

Old hobbit ML had this answer:

 

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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Thangappandi, Arun (Ge Money, consultant) wrote:

> Can any one let me know the difference between the actual memory and

> physical memory which is being monitored by hobbit?

 

It depends on the OS. But the basic is: physical is the memory in the box.  

Actual is the memory in use by programs.

 

Total physical memory = program in physical memory + cache + free memory

Actual = program in memory + program in swap

 

Total physical memory will be 100% because the disk cache will consume all 

available memory.

 

 

Stef

 

 

 

Thank you! 

Paul Gallegos 



 

 

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of
Steve Holmes
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Actual and physical

 

On our Linux (5.1) hosts the memory page (Xymon 4.2.3) reports three values:
Actual, physical, and swap. What do the Actual and Physical numbers refer
to? The man page for hobbit-clients.cfg doesn't say.

 

Thanks,

Steve Holmes

Purdue University.


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