James E. Pratt wrote: > Kinda off-topic, but why on earth would you care much about memory > details on a Linux box? Most memory is cached, so output from, say, > "free" is kinda useless. (Not sure where that plugin gets it's info > though either?).. IMO You are much better off monitoring loadavg . (Or, > am I just losing it?) > > Regards, > jp You would care if you've ever used Linux and heard of oom-killer.
I wrote a plugin ages ago that checks this and takes this caching behaviour of Linux in to account. http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Linux.55.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=909 This plugin counts cache ram as free by default as it effectively is on Linux architecture and so this is the correct thing to do, but there is also a switch to change this behaviour if you want. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null