Theres a mem_shared_func in machine.c when compiling ganglia 2.5.3 on linux.. and it looks for the text 'MemShared:' inside of /proc/meminfo
But it turns out that phrase no longer exists in the newer linux kernels like Linux 2.6.0-test1 gmond would segfault because the skip_token function would get to the end and never matched the phrase, so I just set val.uint32 = 0 in that function for that metric for now to get gmond going again. I did a brief search on linux and MemShared and found this text at groups.google.com, -- remove-memshared.patch Remove /proc/meminfo:MemShared -- Here is a list of current values that show up with that newer kernel, considerably more than in 2.4.x series production kernels -- cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 904660 kB MemFree: 107992 kB Buffers: 60724 kB Cached: 633736 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 286952 kB Inactive: 451448 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 904660 kB LowFree: 107992 kB SwapTotal: 2048248 kB SwapFree: 2048248 kB Dirty: 164 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 48608 kB Slab: 48784 kB Committed_AS: 238212 kB PageTables: 1648 kB VmallocTotal: 122824 kB VmallocUsed: 1448 kB VmallocChunk: 121316 kB
