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Does Ganglia report correct data for memory usage?

http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/small/?r=day&c=Kennisnet+cluster&h=zedl...

It looks like something uses far too much memory. Or is that a characteristic of SunOS?

this is normal with Ganglia on Solaris. the number it uses is what Solaris calls 'swap space', but it's actually including real memory as well:

# swap -s total: 5653208k bytes allocated + 44352k reserved = 5697560k used, 5997384k available

i assume Ganglia doesn't understand this and duplicates real memory use as being swap use as well.

you can see that actually no swap space is in use:

# swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/md/dsk/d12 85,12 8 20563192 20563192

m:user:Jah (Btw, still waiting for an account.)

sorry, if it's waiting on me to create it... i've been fairly busy recently. hopefully someone else will start adding accounts also :)

- river.