On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Florian Forster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aurélien, > > thank you very much for your patches :) > > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:05:11PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: >> The second patch adds support for the two-args version of swapctl() in >> the actual swap plugin code. > > I've applied the first two patches to the master branch, so they will be > included in the next feature release of collectd. > >> As a consequence the returned metrics are quite different. "reserved" >> is no more, and "used" + "free" reflects the total amount of on-disk >> swap space. This is in contrast to the libkstat implementation where >> "used" + "free" + "reserved" added up to more than on-disk swap, as it >> comprised a variable amount of RAM. >> >> In my opinion the previous metrics have their interest and should be >> preserved. But as they reflect the behavior of the Solaris virtual >> memory subsystem rather than strictly speaking swap devices, maybe >> they should be moved to another plugin like vmem ? > > I don't know enough about the memory management of Solaris to have an > opinion here, maybe someone with more knowledge can share his opinion? > > In general, now would be the perfect time for such a change since the > next release may include backwards incompatible changes, such as this > one. I've added a note to the “Plans for 5.0” wiki page [0], so I don't > forget to check up on this patch before releaseing 5.0. > > Regards, > —octo > > [0] <http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plans_for_5.0> > -- > Florian octo Forster
I would say you want to get numbers that match swap -l. (the last two numbers are blocks allocated and blocks free of just swap.) _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
