Re: TOTALMEMORY statement does not work properly on Linux

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

this warning is realy related just to the "totalmemory" statement.

The problem was, that in the past the total memory usage was based on 
the sum of the resident segment size of all processes. This value was 
not correct since it didn't recognized the shared RSS (libraries, etc.) 
so it seemed that more physical memory is used then it was available.

The warning is not valid anymore and can be removed from monit - the 
total memory usage on linux is based quite long time on the proc 
interface (meminfo) which is correct.


Martin


Brian C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started using monit on a SuSE 9.3 server to monitor Apache 2, 
> sshd, and mysql. I love it.
>
> /var/log/messages shows this error every time monit starts:
>
> Warning: TOTALMEMORY statement does not work properly on Linux
>
> I assume this is a reference to the directive in my monitrc that reads:
>
>  if totalmem > 500 MB for 5 cycles then restart
>
> So, what's the story here? Does this not work on GNU/Linux servers? Is 
> there a bug filed or feature request filed to make it work? Thanks for 
> any info.