[Xymon] Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?

[Gore, David W (David)]

You made me revisit the man pages. Without reading Vernon's link I think Xymon is correct and 'top' is incorrect.  Both swap -s and swap -l are correct.  I did already know Solaris does some magic foot work with real memory when calculating swap which may be in Vernon's article but I think I can explain the numbers in the AM.  Time for sleep before the babies wake up.

~David

From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:58 PM
To: Gore, David W (David)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?

On 27 June 2013 02:38, Gore, David W (David) <david.gore at verizon.com<mailto:david.gore at verizon.com>> wrote:
Where is it getting the 106M number?  Anyone else seen this on Solaris?

Yes, same here.  It gets the number from the [swaplist] section (from `swap -l`) of your client message, in preference to the [swap] section (from `swap -s`).  [Reference: xymond/client/solaris.c, in function handle_solaris_client()]

So the real question is, why does "swap -s" and "swap -l" give different results?  The man page for swap indicates that "swap -s" includes swap space in the form of physical memory (in addition to swap partitions and files).  Physical memory used for swap?!  Huh!? I really don't know how the Solaris memory management works!

J

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