Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:03:37 +0000 (UTC) From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/133758 and net-snmp-5.5 - inactive memory stil not counted as free memory Message-ID: <xn0gwa0dupp4vg9000@news.gmane.org> References: <a9a9f1ad843802e6f2c5edcfc9600988@10.16.255.155>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote: > I am experiencing what seems like the problem in > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133758 > > I have net-snmp-5.5 installed on FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and it returns this: > UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0 = INTEGER: 189072 kB > UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 = INTEGER: 273204 kB > > When this is what 'top' says: > Mem: 157M Active, 1467M Inact, 189M Wired, 8580K Cache, 112M Buf, 176M > Free > > Clearly the "Inact" isn't counted as free memory which is causing my > monitoring to throw alerts when there is actually lots of "free" > memory left (where free=free+inact). net-snmp now reports inactive memory as cache memory (actually inactive memory is not free memory). Please check. Helmut -- No Swen today, my love has gone away My mailbox stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xn0gwa0dupp4vg9000>