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

Carl Melgaard Carl.Melgaard at STAB.RM.DK
Wed Dec 15 09:34:12 CET 2010


>> [free]
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
>> Mem:       3921396    3851576      69820          0     319192  3903296 
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509111072    4292308 
>> Swap:     2104472        904    2103568
>I have to plead "not guilty" on behalf of Xymon, then. The data reported 
>by "free" in the "+/- buffers/cache" line is obviously bogus - but it is
>what Xymon uses for the "Actual" memory calculations. If Xymon gets 
>bogus data, then you will also have bogus results.

Yes, thats understandable. Is there any way I can NOT trigger notification on these bogus alerts? Disable the MEMACT check for that host?

Regards,

Carl Melgaard



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