Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:09:37 +0700 From: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd values for various memory metrics via SNMP Message-ID: <8f4cf72e-8320-4bfd-a4d9-3db34db4580d@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <84B7C7D7-BC06-4944-A7E0-5AFC47B6BC0E@punkt.de> References: <1EDAF2AC-3A2B-43BE-B66B-E095F5A80C2C@punkt.de> <de2988a0-00d6-4b4b-8150-bfa235649d64@aetern.org> <84B7C7D7-BC06-4944-A7E0-5AFC47B6BC0E@punkt.de>
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Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > HI Yuri, > >> Am 19.12.2023 um 09:50 schrieb Yuri <yuri@aetern.org>: >> Let's start with OIDs, which ones exactly you are looking at (numeric or >> textual will do)? > > To start I'll post the 4 odd ones of my OPNsense system, FreeBSD 13.2-p7, net-snmp 5.9.1_4,1: OK, guess the following (physical memory) looks correct for you as well? --- HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.1 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageRam HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.1 = STRING: Physical memory HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.1 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.1 = INTEGER: 4183816 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.1 = INTEGER: 1499092 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationFailures.1 = Counter32: 0 --- > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.2 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageRam > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.2 = STRING: Real memory > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.2 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.2 = INTEGER: 191414 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.2 = INTEGER: 189988 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationFailures.2 = Counter32: 0 > --- > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.9 = INTEGER: 9 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.9 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageOther > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.9 = STRING: Shared real memory > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.9 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.9 = INTEGER: 25627 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.9 = INTEGER: 24175 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationFailures.9 = Counter32: 0 > --- > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.8 = INTEGER: 8 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.8 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageOther > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.8 = STRING: Shared virtual memory > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.8 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.8 = INTEGER: 54962 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.8 = INTEGER: 41268 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationFailures.8 = Counter32: 0 > --- > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.3 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageVirtualMemory > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.3 = STRING: Virtual memory > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.3 = INTEGER: 4096 Bytes > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.3 = INTEGER: 1279129 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.3 = INTEGER: 1258824 > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationFailures.3 = Counter32: 0 I took a look at FreeBSD-specific interface for getting memory values (agent/mibgroup/hardware/memory/memory_freebsd.c) and all it does is parsing the following sysctl (vm.vmtotal) output: --- vm.vmtotal: System wide totals computed every five seconds: (values in kilobytes) =============================================== Processes: (RUNQ: 2 Disk Wait: 0 Page Wait: 0 Sleep: 30) Virtual Memory: (Total: 538434716K Active: 538414860K) Real Memory: (Total: 78488K Active: 75752K) Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 52052K Active: 32236K) Shared Real Memory: (Total: 27284K Active: 24588K) Free Memory: 9474964K --- So I guess what net-snmp reports makes sense and the only value that should be used for alerts is that "physical memory" one.
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