On Thu, January 23, 2014 6:07 am, henrik at hswn.dk wrote:
OK, got it now. The problem isn't with vmstat, it is with "top".
Xymon doesn't use the "top" output except to display on a status page. But the output from "top" in the client data message comes just before the "vmstat" output. And the output from "top" in OpenSuSE 13.1 has no final new-line ... so the client data ends up being garbled:
I noticed when debugging F19 RPMs that Fedora 19's "top" had the same problem, causing the same issue... It's fixed in Fedora now, turned out to date back to some display work in procps-ng. The following might help for reference if you wanted to send something up to OpenSuSE to bump their package (assuming they haven't already).
https://gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/4141efaf13254564f0377289bcf5a1a13...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008674
HTH,
-jc