On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Yonah Russ <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok- I've sorted the patch out.
>
> If you want you can build with this manifest file:
> https://gist.github.com/yruss972/d0ac973759485f43e433
> I've also made a pull request against couchbase/sigar
>

Thanks. I've put this on my TODO list. And I'm also CC-ing our
SunOS-everything-and-forever engineer.


> FYI,
> Yonah
>
>
> On Friday, July 4, 2014 2:07:56 PM UTC+3, Yonah Russ wrote:
>>
>> Hold off on that... I made a mess of the patch and my repo.
>> I'll post back when I got it sorted.
>> Sorry,
>> Yonah
>>
>> On Friday, July 4, 2014 12:10:25 PM UTC+3, Yonah Russ wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've found the source of the problem. Sigar isn't zone aware so all the
>>> memory calculations are way off.
>>> I confirmed it by patching sigar and recompiling.
>>>
>>> My patch wouldn't have worked on vanilla Solaris so I did some more
>>> digging and found that Brendan Gregg actually tried to get this fixed in
>>> upstream sigar in 2012.
>>> His patch handles vanilla Solaris as well but I don't have a Solaris
>>> machine to test on.
>>> His patch also fixes something in the disk stats. I'm not sure how it
>>> might affect couchbase.
>>>
>>> In any case, I'm rebuilding couchbase with an adapted version of his
>>> patch.
>>> If all compiles well, I'll let you all know and make a pull request to
>>> couchbase/sigar.
>>>
>>> Here is the patched version in case someone can test on Solaris:
>>> https://github.com/yruss972/sigar
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yonah
>>>
>>> On Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:38:20 AM UTC+3, Aliaksey Kandratsenka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Yonah Russ <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well I took a look at the scripting option and assuming you meant
>>>>> escript, it doesn't look like something I'll be picking up from scratch in
>>>>> an hour or so ;)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No I referred to your favorite scripting language. Like perl, ruby, tcl
>>>> or something else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I hacked port_sigar as you suggested to print the reply values to
>>>>> stderr and ran it using the example.escript which is in the source
>>>>> directory ( I hope that was a reasonable thing to do).
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the output from one of the couchbase servers:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./portsigar/example.escript
>>>>> cpu_total_ms: 67285756633
>>>>> cpu_idle_ms: 32306446002
>>>>> swap_total: 8589934592
>>>>> swap_used: 1717555200
>>>>> swap_page_in: 5915867
>>>>> swap_page_out: 87010188
>>>>> mem_total: 4294967296
>>>>> mem_used: 18446744073677623296
>>>>> mem_actual_used: 18446744017909834968
>>>>> mem_actual_free: 60094683944
>>>>> escript: exception error: no match of right hand side value
>>>>>                  <<2,0,0,0,40,3,0,0,217,42,
>>>>> 139,170,15,0,0,0,178,62,157,133,7,0,
>>>>>                    0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,208,95,
>>>>> 102,0,0,0,0,219,68,90,0,0,0,0,
>>>>>                    0,140,...>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously the mem_used and mem_actual_used numbers are way off.
>>>>> I dug into it deeper and it seems the calculations made by sigar are
>>>>> wrong when running inside a zone.
>>>>> I'll keep looking for a long term solution to that but the thing is
>>>>> that these calculations in sigar haven't changed in 3 years so what 
>>>>> changed
>>>>> in 2.5.1 that caused the numbers in the interface to come out screwy?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can find out by using git log on sigar and sigar_port. Both
>>>> projects are low "traffic" so you should be able to spot something that
>>>> looks solaris-specific. Most likely it's due to some change in sigar but I
>>>> could be wrong. I.e. maybe it's due to sigar_port asking for more stats.
>>>>
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