SV: [xymon] Xymon reports excessive memory usage on 1 SLES 11 host

[Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) STAB.RM.DK>]

Hi,

>> as you can see, it reports an excessive memory usage
> Could you show me the client data behind this report?
> Assuming you have the "hostdata" task running, it should be
> available from the historical status log via the "Client data available"
> link near the bottom of the page.
>
> It is the "[free]" section that is interesting for the memory
> report.

Here are two separate [free] sections (from history), that resulted in red alerts:

[free]
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3921396    3894772      26624          0     302132    3887292
-/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509187332    4216048
Swap:      2104472        904    2103568

- and

[free]
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3921396    3851576      69820          0     319192    3903296
-/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509111072    4292308
Swap:      2104472        904    2103568

- two different days.

> Also, what version of Xymon are you running on your Xymon server?

Im actually running 4.4.0-1 on the server, as I was bold when I implemented Xymon originally.

Regards,

Carl Melgaard