On May 11, 2011, at 11:59 PM, Jefferson Cowart wrote:

> We have a server running MacOS 10.4. Since we've upgraded our intermapper to 
> 5.4.x the host resources probe has been complaining about excessive usage of 
> memory buffers and real memory. Specifically I get the following alarm 
> reasons:
> 
> Usage (53502%) of memory "Memory Buffers" exceeds 100%.
> Usage (53502%) of memory "Real Memory" exceeds 100%.
> 
> Additionally the numbers reported in the host resources storage table don't 
> really make sense:
> 
>  Index       Used (MB)       Size (MB)  % Full   Fail  Descr.
>    1           589,828           1,102       *      0  Memory Buffers
>    2         9,437,262          17,638       *      0  Real Memory
> 
> The UCD-SNMP memory information farther down looks better, but still not 
> right:
> 
> UCD-SNMP Memory Information
>  Swap (KB): Total: 4,294,967,295  Used:        65,592 (0%)
>  Real (KB): Total:     2,097,152  Used:     4,146,760 (4294762694%)
>  Total Shared  :              0 KB
>  Total Buffered:              0 KB
>  Total Cached  :              0 KB
> 
> The system has 4GB of RAM. We didn't have this problem when we were running 
> 5.3.x. Any ideas what's going on here?

Greetings

snmp could be picking up virtual memory on the osx server which is set to 
unlimited. if that server is very busy you could be swapping memory.
try resetting the server, and resetting the probe, 10.4 servers can be funny 
sometimes.
-j

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