RE: RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-21 Thread Bruce Shaw
Here's what I'm finding most confusing making some kind of sense out of all this. I'm having trouble relating our output to numbers generated by other routines in the operating system. Here's some examples - all SOlaris. Server A: Memory size: 11264 Megabytes # swap -s total: 2559672k bytes al

Re: RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-15 Thread Dave Shield
On 15/11/06, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What's wrong with using "virtual memory" for these objects? > > > > I don't want to do this because in most cases, the HAL memory > > entry that's labelled as VIRTMEM does *not* actually monitor > > virtual memory. > At this point in time,

Re: RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Anders
Dave Shield wrote: > On 13/11/06, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not sure I see the benefits of tweaking the MIB and the code to >> replace "virtual memory" by "real+swap" for these objects. > > The changes to the MIB are intended to make the behaviour more > explicit - thus avoid

Re: RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-13 Thread Dave Shield
On 13/11/06, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure I see the benefits of tweaking the MIB and the code to > replace "virtual memory" by "real+swap" for these objects. The changes to the MIB are intended to make the behaviour more explicit - thus avoiding the potential ambiguities

Re: RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Anders
Dave Shield wrote: >> There are [a couple of] areas where the code is non-trivially different: > >>- memTotalFree >>- memSwapError{,Msg} > > I offer the attached patch for consideration w.r.t. these two areas. I'm not sure I see the benefits of tweaking the MIB and the code to replace

RFV: memSwapError handling

2006-11-07 Thread Dave Shield
I've finished analysing the new HAL-based ucd-snmp/memory module, and comparing it against the previous individual statistics. There are [a couple of] areas where the code is non-trivially different: - memTotalFree - memSwapError{,Msg} I offer the attached patch for consideration w