On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole at cairodurham.org>wrote:
On Sunday, December 20, 2009, Xymon User in Richmond <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
Any chance the kernel or related components have been updated since the last previous reboot and/or since the Xymon build, and that this reboot loaded the changes?
Not a bad question, but no. There have been no changes in the kernel or OS for a little while now. In fact I am hoping to have a chance to do an update in about two weeks.
The system did reboot unexpectedly, though. I wouldn't have expected that to have an effect. What do you think?
I tried a "controlled" restate just now via shutdown -r now. After giving the systema few minutes to talk to itself, it is still reporting strangely high numbers.
Would it make sense to pkg_delete the Xymon daemon on the observed host and reinstall it? Or could that make things worse?
If you click through the "client data available" link, you'll see this near the top:
[meminfo]
Total:4084
Free:6920
[swapinfo]
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/da0s1b 4194304 0 4194304 0%That "Total:4084" is supposed to be the total physical memory in the system, if I'm reading the freebsd-meminfo.c source correctly. If you have the xymon source, that's under the "client" directory.
If that system is supposed to have 8G of memory, I think the kernel may not be seeing half of it...
Ralph Mitchell