[Nagiosplug-devel] Troubles with Check_mem.pl

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

free is likely the command you'll want to use. Invoked as "free -k" it will
report the same numbers as top (You can also get them in -b(ytes) -m(egs)
and -g(igs)), but should run much faster and be easier to parse.

Thomas

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> Behalf Of lewis at wsc.com
> Sent: September 13, 2006 10:51
> To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] Troubles with Check_mem.pl
> 
> On Red Hat AS 3 systems, with perl 5.8.0 the check_mem.pl 
> script is an unreliable indicator of the remaining memory.  
> I've had cases where it reports a problem where none exists, 
> or fails to report a problem where memory is critically low.  
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> I'm not an experienced perl programmer, but I swapped in some 
> code to use top, instead of vmstat, and then to deal with the 
> output from that operation.  I think it works better.
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> A patch file is attached.  The original work is GPL'ed so 
> these derivative modifications are as well, if anyone cares 
> to use this change.
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> I'd be happy to hear why this change *won't* work, by the way.   
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> Be well,
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> Karl
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